Massachusetts lobster fishing limits to protect whales restored by appeals court
A federal appeals court on Thursday restored a U.S. agency rule restricting lobster and Jonah crab fishing off the ...
Lawmakers in several states want to roll back same-sex marriage. A Mass. group is helping them.
The Waltham-based group MassResistance says it has drafted text for similar measures to be filed in other state legislatures, ...
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Rice scientists theorize the existence of new particles other than bosons and fermions
A groundbreaking study by Rice University physicist Kaden Hazzard and former student Zhiyuan Wang has established the ...
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How a Central Mass. minister convinced the state to recognize Rosa Parks Day
Gov. Maura T. Healey signed the bill earlier this month, making Massachusetts the ninth state to honor Parks with an annual ...
Quantum theory and thermodynamics: No contradiction with new entropy definition, study says
The famous second law of thermodynamics says that the world gets more and more disordered when random chance is at play. Or, ...
The hidden power of the smallest microquasars: Study finds evidence of particle acceleration
Our home planet is bombarded with particles from outer space all the time. And while we are mostly familiar with the rocky ...
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When Bohr got it wrong: the impact of a little-known paper on the development of quantum theory
Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...
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2025 Massachusetts legislative session
Massachusetts was one of 15 Democratic state government trifectas at the start of 2025 legislative sessions. A state government trifecta occurs when one political party holds the governor's office, a ...