Contractors and subcontractors have a powerful tool under Minnesota law to ensure that they will be paid: filing a mechanic’s lien. But filing liens can be tricky; if done improperly, the contractor ...

The legend on MIT’s campus goes that students once had to leap into the Charles River and swim across its dirty water without stopping to graduate. That was never true. But the institution does ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, an immensely important update to Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation, is currently our best approximation ...

In 18th-century France, science was a men’s club, and women were expected to be ornaments. One aristocrat, the Marquise Émilie du Châtelet, quietly took on Isaac Newton, translating the Principia into ...

KENT, Ohio—Just after 7 a.m. on a recent morning, Ted Hummel leapt up onto the front bumper of a 2019 Ford F-150 and reached under the hood to disconnect a pair of oxygen sensor connectors. It is the ...

Covering the video games industry since 2017, with experience in news, articles, lists, and reviews (and I blame The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask for that). If you are a fan of RPGs and want a third ...

The suspect in the Dec. 13 mass shooting on the campus of Brown University was found dead by suicide Thursday night in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, authorities said. He has been identified ...

A woman missing for 43 years was found living under a different name in Florida. Michelle Marie Newton was taken by her mother, Deborah Newton, from Kentucky in 1983. A Crime Stoppers tip and DNA ...

Matt Baskin is the assignment editor for GBH News. Feedback? Questions? Story ideas? Reach out to Matt at matt.baskin@gbh.org. Setti Warren, the former mayor of Newton and onetime candidate for U.S.

At MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory, a new supercomputer has arrived. TX-GAIN, capable of two AI-exaflops, fuses more than six hundred GPUs into a single, coordinated pulse of processing power. Built not just ...