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Engineering & Computing

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Science of Bubbles

Popping a Commonly Experienced Mystery: Why Do Bubbles Collapse?

September 10, 2020

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CORONAVIRUS RESEARCH

What Sets Off Deadly Levels of Lung Inflammation in Some COVID-19 Patients?

September 8, 2020

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Star Formation

Gazing into Magnetized Interstellar Clouds to Understand How Stars Are Born

September 1, 2020

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OPINION

POV: Modeling Shows Us What Can Happen. Our Choices Determine What Will Happen.

August 28, 2020

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COVID SURVEILLANCE

The Story, and the Science, behind BU’s COVID-19 Dashboard

August 27, 2020

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WeChat & TikTok Bans

If TikTok and WeChat Bans Go into Effect, Will It Be a Crime to Use the Apps in the United States?

August 24, 2020

Research Recovery

Amidst a Pandemic, State-of-the-Art Research Center Gets Reconfigured

August 14, 2020

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3D Printing

Watch These 3D-Printed Nasal Swab Prototypes Take Form

August 7, 2020

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NSF CAREER Awards

Meet BU’s Newest NSF CAREER Award Winners

August 5, 2020

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COVID Testing

Robots, Nanobeads, and Data Modeling—The Science behind BU’s Coronavirus Testing Plan

August 4, 2020

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Antiracism

Striking Out Racist Terminology in Engineering

July 16, 2020

Deepfakes

Protective Filter Defends Images and Video against Deepfake Manipulation

July 1, 2020

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Communicating COVID-19

Comparing How Media around the World Frames Coronavirus News

June 25, 2020

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Neuroscience

How a Memory Game Could Help Us Understand Brain Injury

June 23, 2020

CAREER PLANNING

Postdoc Academy Launches Remote Professional Development Course

June 19, 2020

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Coronavirus

Tiny, Decoy “Sponges” Attract Coronavirus Away from Lung Cells

June 18, 2020

Biomedical engineers in BU professor Allyson Sgro’s lab participated in a workshop to develop individualized action plans and then joined up in person with other members of the community. Together, they met up with a #ShutDownSTEM/Black Lives Matter march walking from Roxbury’s Nubian Square to Boston City Hall.

STEM ON STRIKE

BU Researchers #ShutDownSTEM to Combat Racism

June 12, 2020

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Network Statistics

Data Science Is Helping to Explain Epileptic Seizures

June 11, 2020

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Astrophysics

Could the Distribution of Galaxies Reveal the Universe’s Invisible Web of Dark Matter?

June 4, 2020

Using photolysis—a process by which molecules are broken down by light—BU engineers found they could temporarily weaken MRSA’s defenses enough to make it vulnerable again to several conventional antibiotics

Antibiotic Resistance

Why Phototherapy Will Be the Next Frontier in Combating Antibiotic Resistance

May 21, 2020

Why Phototherapy Will Be the Next Frontier in Combating Antibiotic Resistance