Boston University

Engineering & Computing

A photo of a woman in a mask holding her phone while she boards and MBTA green line train

Contact Tracing

Contact Tracing App Warns of COVID-19 Exposure while Protecting Privacy

April 15, 2020

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Biosensing

Mining Bacteria Parts to Build Around-the-Clock Biosensors

March 31, 2020

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Memory

It’s True, Scent Really Does Have Power over Memory

March 16, 2020

An illustration of the heliosphere

Space Physics

Reimagining Our Solar System’s Protective Bubble, the Heliosphere

March 16, 2020

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Rehabilitation Sciences

Better Treatment through Big Data

March 9, 2020

Robotics

Meet “Dart,” a Robot Inspired by Creatures in Netflix’s Stranger Things

March 5, 2020

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Privacy At A Price

Is There a Hidden Cost to Opting Out of Internet Cookies?

February 27, 2020

An AI robotic arm places a hot dog on a hot dog cooker.

Artificial Intelligence

Meet Jaco and Baxter, Machine Learning Robots Who Cook Perfect Hot Dogs

February 18, 2020

Portrait of Ksenia Bravaya

Chemistry

Ksenia Bravaya Awarded 2020 Sloan Research Fellowship

February 12, 2020

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Stem Cells

Machine Learning Gives Rise to Better Lung Disease Models from Stem Cells

February 4, 2020

Arthur Lupia, assistant director of the National Science Foundation

SCIENCE & SOCIETY

National Science Foundation’s Arthur Lupia Talks Scientific Credibility in an Era of Misinformation

January 28, 2020

An Easter Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly flies through greenery

Autonomous Vehicles

Aerial Drones Get Schooled in Navigation by Moths

January 16, 2020

The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the center of Messier 87 (M87) and its shadow. The shadow of the black hole seen here is the closest we can come to an image of the black hole itself, a completely dark object from which light cannot escape

Research that Rocks

12 Breakthroughs That Wowed Us in 2019

December 19, 2019

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Chemistry

Sustainable Adhesives of the Future Won’t Stick Around

December 17, 2019

Boston University Professor of Engineering, Xin Zhang, poses for a portrait in her lab.

Translational Research

Xin Zhang Elected to National Academy of Inventors

December 16, 2019

Roscoe Giles in a congressional hearing room after testifying before congress.

Computing

Roscoe Giles Named AAAS Fellow

November 26, 2019

workers assorting recycled goods

Robotics

Can Robots Revolutionize the Recycling Industry?

November 14, 2019

Joyce Wong at the podium delivering the Charles DeLisi Distinguished Lecture at Boston University in 2017

Women in STEM

Here’s How to Really Improve Gender Diversity in STEM Research

November 12, 2019

illustration of magnetic metamaterials used to enhance magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Metamaterials

Speeding Up MRI Scans to Save Lives

November 4, 2019

MRI scan of a human brain showing blood flow and cerebrospinal fluid pulses during sleep.

Sleep

Are We “Brain Washed” during Sleep?

October 31, 2019

Are We “Brain Washed” during Sleep?