Northeastern University has built a facility to serve as a testing ground for new homeland security technology.

It’s not just what they say.

U.S. policymakers continue to be frustrated by a stubbornly high unemployment, with over 6 million Americans without a job for 27 weeks or more, and two economists Tuesday highlighted the significant challenges in particular for older workers displaced by the “Great Recession.”

The Kobe Bryant of mediators will attempt to do something Tuesday that NBA owners and players have failed to accomplish in more than two years of negotiating.

People who have more Facebook friends have more gray matter in their brains, a finding that may spur further research on the relationship between social networking and the mind, U.K. researchers said.

Some of the toughest problems facing the healthcare industry today cannot be tackled on the front lines of patient care. Nurses and physicians cannot solve such problems at the bedsides of patients. Instead, as a Northeastern University professor contends, systems engineers can solve these complex healthcare problems using computers.

There is again talk of raising the state gas tax to address the dramatic under-funding of transportation infrastructure. But even when a road network is fully supported by the fuel tax, there is still a disconnect in most motorists’ minds between what they pay and the act of driving.

Toughening the U.S.-backed sanctions imposed on the Central Bank of Iran (Bank Markazi) will paralyze the country’s economy and the oil sector in particular, U.S. Northeastern University Professor Kamran Dadkhah believes.

Another week, another Republican presidential debate.

Reviving the sputtering U.S. housing market will be central to a thus far elusive economic recovery, two Boston-based economists said today in Worcester.

Heat Trace Products LLC, a Leominster manufacturer of cables for heating and cooling, weathered the 2008 recession by finding international markets for its products. Today, Europe accounts for more than one-third of its sales.

Most West Virginians probably are aware of the financial arguments in favor of going to college. Graduates get better jobs, obtain them more quickly and earn much more than those who stop at high school or even before that.