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.

Over the years, sport has regularly bent and broken boundaries. But few places are bending them more than hockey, which has developed into a platform that advocates social commentary as peripheral to the events which take place in its arenas.

As the holiday season approaches, many employers are looking to bulk up their work force for the expected rush of shopping, shipping and traveling that leads into the New Year. With the unemployment rate still above 9%, competition for jobs may be stiffer than ever, but experts say there are positions to be had for […]

In the past month, the National Labor Relations Board has come under furious attack from Republicans in Congress, and decades-old workers’ rights are at risk. Backed by a well-financed lobbying and publicity offensive, Republicans are using a recent labor-law complaint against Boeing to achieve a radical goal that goes far beyond the legal issues in […]