A federal appeals court on Thursday restored a U.S. agency rule restricting lobster and Jonah crab fishing off the ...

The Waltham-based group MassResistance says it has drafted text for similar measures to be filed in other state legislatures, ...

Gov. Maura T. Healey signed the bill earlier this month, making Massachusetts the ninth state to honor Parks with an annual ...

The famous second law of thermodynamics says that the world gets more and more disordered when random chance is at play. Or, ...

Our home planet is bombarded with particles from outer space all the time. And while we are mostly familiar with the rocky ...

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

How is matter different from mass? These and other questions about the deepest levels of physics, answered inside.

Environmental groups concerned about loss of protections for vanishing animals see one of President Donald Trump’s early ...

Under state law, it takes a two-thirds vote by the legislature to greenlight transfers or land use changes to open space ...

Over 400 endangered sea turtles have washed ashore on India's east coast in the last two weeks in an event not witnessed in ...

BOSTON (AP) — The governor of Massachusetts plans to convene a statewide graduation requirement council after voters in November decided to ditch the state’s standardized tests as a high ...

Meanwhile, in Washington D.C. and Massachusetts—states with the highest rates of women with college degrees between ages 25 and 64—the median age for marriage is 31 and 30, respectively.