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The FCC has created a new forum for corporations , experts and activists to scrap over web laws: The Net Neutrality Advisory Committee.

Scientists have long understood that modern birds descended from dinosaurs. Rather than take years to reach sexual maturity, as many dinosaurs did, birds sped up the clock -- some species take as little as 12 weeks to mature -- allowing them to retain the physical characteristics of baby dinosaurs.

Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a method for building complex nanostructures out of short synthetic strands of DNA.

Members of the Free Syrian Army's 'Commandos Brigade' go for a patrol near Qusayr, 15 kms from the flashpoint city of Homs, on May 10, 2012.

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LEGO, eat your heart out. Blocks of DNA have been programmed to automatically build themselves into nanoscopic structures.

Governor Deval Patrick endorsed Elizabeth Warren's Senate candidacy at a campaign event on Wednesday.

The story of David Boone reads like a movie. A David was homeless all throughout high school, sleeping in the park, staying with friends and getting caught up in unnecessary beefs with local gang members.

Modern birds retain the physical characteristics of baby dinosaurs, according to a newA Nature study that found birds are even more closely related to dinos than previously thought.

Like many of us, Lawrence Summers is troubled by the gap between rich and poor in America and how that undermines our standing as "the land of opportunity." Like many of us, Lawrence Summers is troubled by the gap between rich and poor in America and how that undermines our standing as "the land of opportunity." But the former Harvard University ... (more)

A There are several Parkway residents among the Boston Public Schools valedictorians this year.A On Tuesday, 34 valedictorians for the 2012 class for BPS schools, where honored by BostonA Mayor Thomas Menino, Boston School Committee Chair Rev.

Former Finnish Prime Minister Esko Aho, who has headed government and public affairs at Nokia, will step down from his position on the management team to take a position as Senior Fellow at Harvard University.

With the summer beach season under way, an environmental advocacy group is releasing a first-ever list of the Boston-area's cleanest beaches, putting Nantasket beach in Hull on top and King's beach in Lynn at the bottom.

By this time next year, students from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville could be studying at the University of Havana, and vice versa.

More than 17,000 people have signed an online petition urging US President Barack Obama to require all scientific journal articles resulting from US taxpayer-funded research to be made freely available online.

She does not like dropping the H-bomb, which is how Harvard students and alumni describe the moment they use the name of their university.

He admitted he celebrated a bit too much the night before his undergrad commencement at Yale University and slept through most of the ceremony.

Here's something I never thought I'd write: There's actually a dumber group of loopy, conservative, wing-nuts out there than birthers.

Annette Gordeon-Reed, a Pulitzer Prize winner for non fiction, will speak June 5 at the Stowe House in Hartford.

TUESDAY, May 29 -- People with less than a high school education who work with solvents may have problems with their thinking skills later in life, according to a study of people in France.