Glut of postdoc researchers stirs crisis in science

The postdoctoral position has become less a stepping stone and more of a holding tank.

This State Police cruiser struck a Honda Pilot last year, injuring the Chelmsford couple inside. Police officers on patrol face an array of distractions while driving, including laptops mounted in their vehicles.

State Police

Troopers, public at risk from State Police cruiser crashes

State Police have seen 1,800 accidents in five years, leaving behind battered vehicles, expensive lawsuits, and painful injuries.

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Richard Sacra, the Mass. doctor previously diagnosed with Ebola, is in isolation at UMass Memorial with a respiratory infection.

Anti-Occupy Central protesters, at left, tried to remove a barricade from pro-democracy protesters on a main street in Hong Kong's Mongkok shopping district, Saturday.

Hong Kong protesters are divided after concessions

Some demonstrators said they would continue their actions after others agreed to remove barriers that had blocked buildings.

Goya?s ?Ferdinand Guillemardet?? was inspected for damage after its arrival in Boston from Paris.

Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff

Special relationship brings Goya masterpieces to MFA

Beyond the Boston museum?s forthcoming Goya show is a tale of subtle salesmanship, horse-trading, and overseas ties.

The auction house made the first-ever prints from the negatives, discovered in a darkroom, of the 1953 wedding. The photographs, some posed and some candid, were taken by a ?back-up? freelance photographer.

Newfound images of JFK wedding up for auction

The negatives were discovered in a photographer?s darkroom after his death, and have likely never been seen before.

Scientist David Miller of Vaxess Technologies treated cells with vaccines at LabCentral in Cambridge.

innovation Economy

Kendall Square passing from tech to biotech center

Biotech companies and investors are now finding they can?t afford not to have a presence in the neighborhood.

Dave Wallace (left) worked with the pitchers as Terry Francona managed the 2004 ballclub to the historic title.

Nick Cafardo | Sunday Baseball Notes

Dave Wallace thrives with the Orioles

Wallace, who oversaw the Red Sox? 2004 pitching staff, is enjoying his latest run as a coach in the majors.

First-graders at private Shady Hill School in Cambridge learn basic algorithmic thinking and teamwork as they figure out how to make programmable robotic toys move.

globe Magazine | The Education Issue

How can we get young students into robotics?

Robotics is the 21st century?s newest must-study subject. So how can schools get more students exposed?

Opinion

DERRICK Z. JACKSON

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Maine?s bear population is still above 30,000 and is now threatening to spill out of the woods into urban areas.