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The incredibly inexpensive credit-card-size Raspberry Pi harks back to a simpler time, when programmers intimately built gadgets from the ground up.

One of the greatest things about music is its timelessness. No matter the situation there is always an appropriate song.

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It is ironic - some would say tragic - that so many young people in this country engage daily with innovative technologies like smart phones and social networks and yet they never consider a career in science or engineering.

It's time for the next big thing in education, a true revolution in our approach to high school teaching and learning.

In 1949, Reinhold Niebuhr published a book called "Faith and History." Niebuhr noticed a secular religion that was especially strong in the years after World War II.

Sara Volz has been into the algae again. And all that green yucky looking stuff she grows in her bedroom has won her another first place award at the International Science and Engineering Fair held recently in Pittsburgh.

You know, the kind of class that made your parents stop reading the newspaper and glance up at you with that "Seriously?" look.

He has the right math stuff to help send spaceships to the moon. But George E. Miller III has an even bigger challenge in taking over Martin University on the Eastside of Indianapolis.

Stephanie and Michelle Caluag both won medals at the 37th National Collegiate Taekwondo Championships held April 7 and 8 in Cambridge at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Seven scientists won prizes Thursday for discoveries that involve the furthest reaches of the solar system, vanishingly tiny materials and the complexities of the brain.

Seven researchers, including Mildred S. Dresselhaus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have been awarded the 2012 Kavli Prizes , which include a cash award of $1 million in each field.

Nergis Mavalvala, professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, can check off a whole lot of boxes on the diversity form.

MIT, or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is known for its strong emphasis on scientific and technological education as well as research.

The Inquiry Who designed Plainfield's first buildings? The Facts Until the late 19th-Century, the practice of building design was left largely to master builders, those carpenters who possessed advanced knowledge of building construction and design.

Nearly 20 years ago in a Mauna Kea observatory, a University of Hawaii astronomy professor and a graduate student made a discovery that would reshape the view of the solar system and strip Pluto of its status as a planet.

Doina Simovici's love of music needed a home. The native of Romania had a growing after-school music program in the Natick area, but to reach the dream, she needed her own teaching space.

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - Gerard Caprio Jr., William Brough Professor of Economics at Williams College, has been named a "Top Wonk" on the economy.

So far, there have been research groups and companies who demonstrated how their robots can function in sync.

Newly discovered I3-ray jets and bubbles , shown in this artist's conception, suggest that the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way was active as recently as 50,000 years ago.