Plants need nitrogen to grow. Many legumes meet this need through a symbiotic relationship: They harbor bacteria that fix atmospheric nitrogen and make it available to the plant. Until now, it was ...

With one protest withdrawn and a second one denied, the Office of Personnel Management is now free to move forward with its plan to award a 10-year contract to modernize the government’s human ...

TAMPA, Fla. — For the first time this school year, the state offered the new Step Up for Students scholarships. One of them is specifically for families who choose to homeschool. It provides access to ...

UHM Vacation IPO Allotment: The initial public offering (IPO) of UHM Vacation saw robust investor participation, and attention has now turned to the IPO allotment date, which is expected to be ...

The Massachusetts Inspector General has released a new report on the state’s “broken” public defender system, describing an “expensive” system that has been “resistant to change,” as a months-long bar ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated at 4:30 p.m. June 10, 2026, to add comments from Chief Counsel Anthony Benedetti for the Committee for Public Counsel Services, and the Massachusetts Association ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

Objectives To investigate associations between daily physical activity, activity intensity and step counts with incident cancer risk. Methods Prospective analysis of UK Biobank participants who wore ...

Rachel Williams has been an editor for nearly two decades. She has spent the last five years working on small business content to help entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses. She’s well-versed ...