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The Conservation Commission will hold a public hearing Tuesday to review information that will determine whether the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act applies to land abutting Jordan Dairy Farms.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has vowed to elevate the role of women in the world's third-largest economy.

The photos above show two trash cans: one in Davis Square, the other in Porter Square.

Sunnyvale, CA and Cambridge, MA, June 17, 2013 - - Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today announced the joint development of a personalized learning platform that enhances the effectiveness of online learning.

For a limited time, Cambridge Brewing Company is pouring a batch of "Collier Stout," in honor of fallen Massachusetts Institute of Technology officer and Wilmington native Sean Collier.

The company provides biologically active cellular therapies for treating vascular and other serious diseases.

Each raised crosswalk is expensive, costing upwards of $40,000, since proper drainage needs to be installed in additional to the crosswalk itself.

Editor's note: Nazila Fathi was The New York Times correspondent in Tehran for 10 years until 2009.

Sampling the menu recently at his newest venture, Patrick Lyons called the chefs out of the kitchen to tell them the wings were too wet, the potstickers were too dry, and the mound of slaw with the cheeseburger spring rolls was too big.

You're in no danger of falling in, but a large group of possible cosmic vacuum cleaners have just been identified.

Beginning today, the city's Department of Public Works and Parks will begin sweeping the areas bounded by May, Hammond, Tainter, Illinois and Cambridge streets and Park Avenue.

In case you missed the news a few months ago , the Boston area is in for some major traffic disruptions caused by the planned renovations of the "Salt-and-Pepper-Shaker Bridge" that connects Beacon Hill with Cambridge: three years of traffic snarls, 25 weekends of Red Line diversions, and a long-term hiatus for all northbound car traffic on the ... (more)

Today's mobile devices are constantly in use-so constantly that battery life is a huge problem.

Looking to buy in the Metro Boston area? This weekend, according to Boston.com's listings, there are more than 200 open houses in Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, and Somerville.

Using more than 150 Chandra observations spread over 13 years, researchers identified a bonanza of stellar-mass black holes, that is, those that form from the collapse of a giant star and typically have masses between five and 10 times that of the Sun.

Man made takes on a whole new meaning these days, with even dapper city-dwelling dudes now excited to learn everything from urban beekeeping and making their own honey to building a tiny house from reclaimed materials for under $20K.

Among the cornucopia of reportage on government espionage, one article in particular caught my eye.

We recently received an email from a concerned resident about the amount of litter along the new Alewife Brook Greenway, which opened last fall.

MORE THAN 200 years old, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Mass., ranks among this country's most venerable scholarly societies.

Check the full article for some timely data quality insights and this page for more details about next month's CDOIQ Symposium "Has the problem of bad data grown worse in the era of big data? No, not really, says author and industry analyst Joe Maguire , one of the organizers of the MIT Chief Data Officer and Information Quality Symposium, to be ... (more)