Today’s Boston Globe traces the history of many of the 35 Iranian students who in 1975 came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for training as nuclear scientists — at a time when the ...

The state handles about 13 percent of the nation's unemployment claims but processes benefits on a computer system built during the 1980s based on 1970s technology. The state should have completed ...

The Soviet space program had a lot of hope riding on the Cosmos 482 mission when it launched in March 1972. The mission included a lander destined for Venus. The spacecraft never made it out of ...

That’s according to a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), which found that the Pentagon was still using 1970s-era computing systems that require “eight-inch floppy ...

Scientist skippered 1970s Mars landers programLowrie joined what was then Martin Marietta in 1948 in Baltimore, and he was transferred to Denver in 1956. In addition to the Viking project, Lowrie ...

Key point: These drones share technology that was discovered before but is only now being put to full use. Here’s how it happened. The U.S. Navy’s new MQ-25 Stingray aerial-refueling drone ...

Mission Hospital doctors in the 1970s laid the foundation for today's dialysis program that has saved more than 10,000 lives over the past 50 years.