Every generation has its Gold Rush. For Generation X, it was the Tech Boom. For Millennials, it might just be the Big Data Revolution. Instead of pickaxes and pans, though, today’s data miners will use science and software to unearth 21st century gold – keen business intelligence.

A century ago, islanders could travel from the harbor to Siasconset via the dearly departed Nantucket Railroad, a privately funded enterprise that operated—in fits and starts, but mostly fits—from 1881-1918. Although it ran in the red for most of its checkered history, the Nantucket Railroad had a rich history of derailments, de-coupled cars, engine failure, shifting tracks, crashes, and other calamities.

Check out a promotional brochure that features Bentley University's many technology-learning labs, which offer students the hands-on experience that they need to hit the ground running after graduation.

Black and blue or gold and white? In late February, this was the burning question on the minds of millions as an innocent Tumblr post about a dress color went viral on social media. Fortunately, Joe Rizzo, M.D., of Mass. Eye and Ear was able to explain the science behind #TheDress to WBZ-TV and National Geographic.

The goal of this internal communications campaign was to encourage employees to take the staff survey. Where most hospital staff were mobile, we took an old-school approach by using printed posters as the primary communications channel.

New data demonstrates the benefits of BPM 31510 for pancreatic cancer patients and BPM 31543 for those suffering from chemotherapy-induced Alopecia (CIA).

JFK Hyannis Museum exhibit focuses on President Kennedy’s Cape Cod connections, 100 years after his birth.

After being shuttered for nearly a year, dusty and stripped of its seats and walls, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s storied lecture hall – the Jimmy Fund Auditorium – recently began the first day of the rest of its life.

Professor Rich Melloni and grad assistant Jill Grimes are aggressively studying steroid abuse.

The Super Bowl is no exception to the grand American tradition of excess. In fact, the National Football League’s championship game typifies it. So it should come as no surprise that the NFL team that scored most excessively all season long, the Green Bay Packers, continued that timeworn tradition of American gluttony with a 35-21 Super Bowl XXXI victory over the AFC Champion New England Patriots in the Louisiana Superdome.

For the media, the trouble with Super Bowl Week is lies in digging up a meaty story.

As Bentley has evolved from an accounting school on Boylston Street in Boston’s Back Bay to a full-fledged university in Waltham, leadership understood the growing need to infuse Bentley’s business curriculum with a liberal dose of humanities-focused coursework.

As part of the Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) surgical webcast series, Dr. David Sugarbaker, chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at BWH, conducted an extrapleural pneumonectomy live on the Web.

Fourteen years after her near-death experience with malignant pleural mesothelioma, an aggressive thoracic cancer most frequently associated with asbestos exposure, Levine is the longest-living survivor of this cancer, which typically carries a very bleak diagnosis.

Patriots Coach Bill Parcells realizes he has to create more options to accommodate third-year gunslinger Drew Bledsoe's burgeoning talents, so the former grind-it-out guru has adopted a radically different offensive philosophy than he employed during his final years with the Giants.

When one thinks of diners, two things come to mind: good food and good conversation. One usually surpasses the other, and rarely, if ever, do both reach the pinnacle of perfection.

While an emotional appeal can often ignite a movement, cold, hard numbers can be just as effective in spurring people to take action. That one-two punch is the foundation of Bentley’s OneLess program, a one-year-old initiative that encourages students to consider drinking one less drink per occasion or one less occasion per week in order to improve their GPA, overall health, or finances.

Although it’s commonly accepted wisdom that nobody – or nothing – is perfect, this logic no longer applies to BERG’s CLIA Laboratory, which earned a perfect rating from a government regulator on Thursday, Aug. 17.

In a TEDx Cambridge talk, Dr. Lotfi Merabet discusses blindness and how he and his team are developing new methods of helping sightless children learn how to navigate unfamiliar surroundings.

Thanks to recently enacted tax breaks for film companies, movie shoots are an increasingly common sight in and around the Hub. So, early on the overcast morning of October 16, a film crew was setting up shop on Dewey Square, and rumor quickly spread that Mel Gibson would be shooting a scene or two.