Engineering & Computing

Noise Prevention

Fast Company Names Boston University–Designed Sound Shield a “World Changing Idea”

Radicalization

How Do Social Movements Emerge—and Why Do Some Radicalize?

Accolades

Squid-Inspired Lab Technology Wins Student Team a Boston University Climate Award

Physics and AI

Boston University Joins National Science Foundation Institute Pushing Frontiers of Physics and AI

Space Weather

We Can Predict Space Weather. What If We Could Also Stop It?

Clean Energy

Boston University Researchers Team Up with Massachusetts to Launch New Clean Energy Tools

Infectious Diseases

Measles, Cholera, and Mpox: BU-Based Outbreak Tracker Monitors World’s Most Dangerous Infectious Diseases

Bio-Inspired Engineering

Could This King-Size Citrus Fruit Inspire a Better Mobile Phone Case?

Innovation

Biomedical Engineer Wilson Wong Is Boston University’s Innovator of the Year

Online Polarization

Studying How Online Images Feed Polarization Wins BU Scholar Prestigious Andrew Carnegie Fellowship

Research News

Brink Bites: Michael J. Fox Parkinson’s Foundation Grant to BU, Widowed Men Have Higher Depression Risk than Women

Brain Science

Songbird Brains Can Generate New Neurons. Can We Help Human Brains Do the Same?

Retinal Disease

Could a Retinal Prosthesis Restore Sight for People with Age-Related Macular Degeneration?

Hearing Loss

What Is the Cocktail Party Problem—and Can New Boston University Research Solve It?

Antibiotic Resistance

WHO Joins Forces with BU Center on Forced Displacement to Help Vulnerable Populations at Risk of Antimicrobial Resistance

Convergence

Can AI Help Predict the Earth’s Climate a Decade from Now?

Awards

Boston University Biomedical Engineer Ji-Xin Cheng Named National Academy of Inventors Fellow

Awards

Two Boston University Bioengineers Win Prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships

Pediatric Health

Can Artificial Intelligence Help Emergency Responders Save Children?

Hearing Loss

A Solution to the Cocktail Party Problem—Hidden in the Brain