With its spaghetti-like tangle of streets and legendarily pushy drivers, Boston hasn’t always been viewed as a haven for bicycle riders.

Graduate school applicants will soon face a new hurdle in their bids for admission: a longer and revamped GRE that test administrators say more accurately assesses the skills needed to earn advanced degrees.

Hub college students are skipping the dining hall in favor of trips to farmers markets located right on campus.

Accurate dropout figures are very hard to find because most states don’t adequately collect or analyze the data.

Who said 13 is unlucky? The Roxbury International Film Festival – New England’s largest film festival dedicated to celebrating people of color -€” kicks off its 13th year tonight. Continuing through Sunday, it offers four days of movies, networking and community-based programming for families and filmmaking enthusiasts alike.

Northeastern’s search for a hockey coach led athletic director Peter Roby to one of the university’s own.

It is a seductively simple idea: human traits, ranging from smoking to loneliness to obesity, are contagious, spreading through social networks like the flu.

Norwegian massacre suspect Anders Behring Breivik’s purported 1,500-page manifesto paints a picture of a deliberative, driven killer — not a rambling crazy person, criminologists said Tuesday.

Maybe tattoos aren’€™t just for Harley riders or rebellious teens after all. In a few years, diabetics might get inked up with digital tats that communicate with an iPhone to monitor their blood.

The Norwegian courts decided to close the hearing of the man responsible for the massacre to the public and media, stating that Breivik might have used it to send signals to accomplices.

Apple’s strong second quarter performance momentarily overshadowed its legal difficulties, while Google dealt with growing lobbying bills from its own courtroom troubles.

In a sign that Boston could be taking a step forward on one of its most challenging problems, new state data to be released today show that the number of black infants who died before their first birthday plunged by nearly 50 percent between 2008 and 2009.