The world’s first modern rocket launched from a cabbage farm in Massachusetts 100 years ago
Robert Goddard is known as the father of modern rocketry, but at the time, many people mocked his ideas around space exploration.
How UMass Amherst is helping stem the shortage of air traffic controllers
Researchers are working to inspire the next generation of recruits — and hope to eventually play a role in training them, too.
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The first Secretary of War's books are in Boston. What was he reading?
The personal library of Henry Knox encompasses a wide array of topics, from Middle Eastern civilization to philosophy to military tactics. -
State, utilities bracing for blizzard-induced power outages
"People do need to be off the roads during the duration of this storm," said Gov. Healey. -
Nor’easter slams eastern Massachusetts: Here's what to expect Monday from the snowstorm
Wind will continue to ramp up through the morning before peaking around 10 a.m. to noon -
Blizzard warnings issued for Massachusetts as storm threatens East Coast
Blizzard warnings have been issued for Boston, New York City, New Jersey and communities along the East Coast as a late-winter storm approaches. -
School bus cameras will get first test in Chicopee
Chicopee says it will be the first municipality to take advantage of the authority extended last year for cities and towns to deploy cameras to catch people who illegally pass stopped school buses.
GBH News podcasts
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Catching The Codfather
Boston has begun to wrestle with the notion of paying reparations to Black people to make up for 400 years of enslavement and economic exclusion. -
College Uncovered
GBH News in collaboration with The Hechinger Report, goes behind the scenes to show you how higher education really works. -
Scratch & Win
Never in American history has it been so easy to gamble legally. -
The Big Dig Podcast
This Peabody Award–winning podcast dives into the cynicism that hangs over the topic of American infrastructure. No project embodies that cynicism quite like ‘The Big Dig.’
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