Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

Boston has so many entertaining activities for kids, but finding things to do with teens can feel challenging. Have no fear: From fun centers and old-school arcades to visiting Fenway Park, we've ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the “Solstice” experience returns to Mount Auburn Cemetery, we meet “Jane Austen: The Original Romance Novelist” and talk with Mike ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to exist on Bennu, a small asteroid that swings by our planet about every six ...

Somerville Road Runners’ 29th Annual Gobble, Gobble, Gobble at 9 a.m. at Davis Square, Somerville. Free (to watch) or $49 (to run). This 4-mile race benefiting local charities starts and ends in Davis ...

BOSTON — As an adult, I had a good time at the Museum of Illusions. If I were 10 years old, it would have been the greatest thing I’ve ever seen. Tucked into a double-decker row of shops on the ...

I knew I was going to love Boston Blue’s memorial episode for Ben Silver, but I had no idea it would affect me this much. This episode had it all: the family bonds and compelling cases that made me ...

Former USA marathon record holder Keira D'Amato has never been to Spain, but that will change next month when she competes in the Valencia Marathon, her second marathon of the year and her first since ...

Pauline Baker, Daisy Whitner, John Williams and Priscilla Williams Carolina are all descendants of potter David Drake. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston In the 1850s, David Drake spent his days making large ...

Boston Blue Season 1 Episode 4 may be the first tearjerker the Blue Bloods spinoff offers. It feels weird to be excited about what may be a heartbreaking episode, but this one looks so good. Danny ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, said David Drake, the artist, had been “deprived of his creations involuntarily and without compensation.” By Christine Hauser In the 1800s, while enslaved in South ...