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If you go outside to look at the sky at night (maybe Living Lab's program on Astronomy inspired you), what can you expect you find? Jenny Junker asked…

Why ski to the South Pole and back? In the famous words of mountaineer George Mallory, "because it's there." And as long as we're going, why not do some…

In this era of big data, each and every one of us is the source, and some would argue – owner, of reams of data. Where we live, how much we exercise, what…

Music has been called the universal language and noted as one of the things that make humans distinct. But when did we first make music? In 2009,…

There was excitement, edged with a slight tension, aboard the Charles W. Morgan as she sailed out of Provincetown Harbor on an overcast Friday morning.…

Two men who used a lobster boat to block a 40,000 ton coal shipment headed for Brayton Point Power Station will not face criminal charges.Jay O’Hara is a…

Science - like life - doesn't always go according to plan. An Arctic expedition this year met with political and meteorological obstacles, and ended with…

Each year, tens of thousands of people from around the country make their way to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert for a week-long festival known as Burning Man.…

No one has hunted whales in American waters for decades, but scientists continue to chase them in pursuit of data and understanding. Now, the New Bedford…

With spring comes warmer weather and beautiful flowers, but also the risk of tick-borne illnesses, like Lyme disease. One U Mass Amherst professor wants…