Natural Sciences

Accolades

Meet BU’s Six CAREER Award Recipients

Field Report

What’s It Like to Sample Sea Life in the Remote Pacific?

STEM Education

Physics for All: An Online Class Is Expanding the Gateway to STEM

NEUROSCIENCE

A Picture-Perfect Look at How Electrical Activity Travels through the Brain

Environmental Archaeology

What Can We Learn from an Ancient Pea?

Superbugs

Superbug detector is first diagnostic to launch from CARB-X

Research Accolades

Three BU Research Teams Win First Kilachand Fund Awards

Neuroscience

How Do You Manipulate a Memory?

Mosquito-borne illness

Here’s Everything We Know about the Lethal Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus

Ebola

“It Was Like a Miracle,” BU NEIDL Researcher Says of Powerful New Ebola Treatments

DEMENTIA IN CTE

Five New Answers about the Link between Football, CTE, and Dementia

BIRTH CONTROL

Why We Need a Contraception Revolution

NUCLEAR WEAPONS

A BU Physicist Is Worried about the Spread of Nuclear Weapons—So He’s Doing Something about It

Systems Neuroscience

Could Rat Brains Hold the Secret to Cars, Robots with Better Navigational Skills?

Government & Law

To Fight Climate Change, Strengthen Global Democracy

Climate Change

As Climate Warms, Increased Energy Needs to Power Air-Conditioning Could Make a Bad Situation Worse

Neuroscience

Could Autism, Depression Be Rooted in Our Brain’s Ability to Pay Attention?

Space Sciences

A BU X-ray Instrument Is Heading to the Moon

Medicine

A BMC Trauma Surgeon on David Ortiz’s Gunshot Wounds

Marine Biology

A Dead Humpback, a Team of Scientists, a Race for Answers