Amy Costa of Truro got into fermentation kind of accidentally. She had just stopped working as a bartender but wanted to keep creating drinks and her friend was brewing kombucha from a kit.

This past weekend I was unchained from my desk for a rare opportunity to get out and take some folks birding – in this case it was a weekend-long “Birding the Fall Migration” Field School for Mass Audubon.

It’s been about 50 years since researchers first discovered fresh water deep below the ocean floor. But the undersea aquifer off Cape Cod hasn’t been studied until now.

In this episode of The Garden Lady, C.L. Fornari receives a postcard from plants, shrubs, and trees offering advice on proper trimming techniques.

This week Massachusetts education officials announced the most results of the most recent standardized assessment exam known as the MCAS. Only 13 districts saw students meet pre-pandemic learning levels in both Math and English Language Arts. Massachusetts Education Commissioner Patrick Tutwiler told NEPM, the results are both understandable and to some degree predictable.

As the fire risk heightens in drought-stressed Vermont and New Hampshire, the U.S. Forest Service has positioned a firefighting helicopter at Lebanon Municipal Airport to improve response times.

Companies that make DNA for science labs screen out any requests for dangerous bits of genetic material. But a new study shows how AI could help malevolent actors get the stuff anyway.