Melissa Murphy’s eighth grader had been looking forward to the day she would learn whether she was accepted into a Danvers school that has the only nearby equine science program: Essex North Shore ...

An oil painting showing a man and woman in the center of the image; the man on the left reaches out his right hand to take the woman’s right hand. Behind them, a priest in robes and a golden headpiece ...

A new prototype could supercharge mass spectrometry by analyzing thousands of molecules at once instead of one by one. The breakthrough boosts sensitivity enough to reveal rare, hidden ...

In 1997, a group of 39 cult members died in a mass suicide The "Heaven's Gate" cult was one that spanned decades and, at its center, a wide-eyed cult leader named Marshall Applewhite An April 1997 ...

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Mass spectrometry is already a powerful tool for determining what kind and how many molecules are present in a given sample. But most instruments still analyze their molecules one or just a few at a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Amazon tractor-trailer jackknifed on the Massachusetts Turnpike on Wednesday morning as icy roads caused problems for drivers ...

MassDOT’s failed attempt to find a new operator for 18 highway service plazas across the state was filled with flaws that “undermined the integrity” of the process, the state inspector general said in ...

Mass spectrometry (MS) has long been a cornerstone of chemical and biological analysis, but in biotech and biomanufacturing, it is now experiencing a renaissance. As drug modalities diversify—peptides ...

An illustration of an antibody disrupting the binding between a virus particle and a receptor on the edge of a membrane. A drug (orange) blocks the SARS-CoV-2 virus (gold sphere with white protruding ...

Anti-government protests have erupted across all 31 of Iran’s provinces in a wave of unrest that marks the biggest challenge to the regime in years. An ongoing communications shutdown, which experts ...

I picked an odd time to start replaying Mass Effect 3. I’ve been revisiting Bioware’s beloved sci-fi shooter series over the last month and a half, trudging my way through stopping Saren in the ...