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Sugary drinks are a real problem, but alternatives are hard to make.

This Boston venture capitalist will vote for Obama in November. But he praises Mitt Romney's work at Bain Capital and the private equity industry as a whole.

Lessons from the new world of quicksilver work, where "career planning" is an oxymoron.

In a single year, a couple got married, got pregnant, and founded a fast-growing company.

In a single year, a couple got married, got pregnant, and founded a fast-growing company. Two-thousand and five was the year of the perfect merger and acquisition.

In a single year, a couple got married, got pregnant, and founded a fast-growing company.

The president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., came to that job in 1999 with a stellar resume. Besides being the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Shirley Ann Jackson headed the U.S

The president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., came to that job in 1999 with a stellar resume. Besides being the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Shirley Ann Jackson headed the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission during the Clinton administration and was a physicist at Bell Laboratories and other notable research institutions

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) have developed an imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion exposures per second–fast enough to produce a slow-motion video of a burst of light traveling the length of a one-liter bottle, bouncing off the cap and reflecting back to the bottle’s bottom. As Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor in M.I.T.’s Media Lab, explains in the video below, a high-speed camera can capture the image of a bullet mid-flight. The M.I.T

Social media has a lot to say about TV. Can Bluefin cash in on that? Deb Roy created Bluefin's business plan with an MIT colleague in 48 hours.

You need to get the word out about your new product or service. What if you paid someone -- or a lot of people -- to review it for you?

More than 200 tops spin in vessels half-buried in the dirt outside Stephentown, N.Y., a town near the Massachusetts state line. Inside the vessel a vacuum permits each top to rotate as many as 16,000 times per minute, despite the fact that each weighs more than one metric ton, thanks to its steel and carbon-fiber composition

Rainfalls are suspected to trigger the spread of a multitude of foliar (leaf) diseases, which could be devastating for agriculture and forestry. Instead of focusing on the large-scale, ecological impact of this problem, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and the University of Liege in Belgium are studying the phenomenon from a novel perspective: that of a single rain droplet.

To hell with dongles. Use your own custom QR code to play at hundreds of merchants with Scvngr's new service.

Here's a look at the companies that provide the uniforms, safety partitions, dispatch software, and handcuffs that make night patrol in Newark, Delaware, possible. Vehicle safety partitions Corporal Jeffrey Schwagel (foreground) and Master Corporal Gerald Bryda (rear car) have driven plenty of perps to the station during their combined 23 years on the Newark force.