Fusion program at MIT is ending
The school plans to close a long-running nuclear fusion project, one of only three in the nation, because of cuts in federal funding.
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The school plans to close a long-running nuclear fusion project, one of only three in the nation, because of cuts in federal funding.
A cyclist was killed in the Fenway Sunday, and another collision in South Boston earlier in the afternoon left two pedestrians with serious injuries, police said.
Adrian Walker
The mayor of Boston continues to relish every moment of the job that has come to define him.
Nonprofit Honor Flight New England took 61 veterans to Washington, D.C., to visit the memorials that honor them for their sacrifices.
Dorchester residents gathered Sunday to paint, eat, and raise money for the Marathon bombing victims in a daylong event.
ARAM BOGHOSIAN FOR THE GLOBE
Several schools held commencement exercises Sunday, with celebration tempered by thoughts of the Marathon bombings.
At commencement, BU honors the fallenThe school awarded posthumous degrees to Marathon victim Lu Lingzi and Binland Lee, a senior who died last month in a fire.
Marathon bombings
Judy Clarke, the lawyer heading the defense for 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is well-versed in capital cases.
MBTA officer hangs tough in recovery from shootingRichard “Dic” Donohue remembers almost nothing of the night he was shot during chaotic gunfire on a normally quiet Watertown street.
Larry Hittinger and Michael Ward first encountered each other in the chaotic aftermath of the Marathon bombings, when they carried an injured boy to EMTs.
Rep. Edward Markey and Gabriel Gomez both said on the campaign trail they would participate in a WBZ/Boston Globe debate on June 5.
Mr. Johnson helped integrate the Globe’s pressroom and was a very active member of the Merrimack Valley branch of the NAACP.
The carousel soon to adorn the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway in Boston is a horse of a different color.
William Griswold will explain how archeology and physics intersect at Boston College’s Weston Observatory.
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