Boston University

Natural Sciences

Red leaf cutter ants hive behaviour carrying food from fruiting

Biology

Science in a Post-Truth Society

April 20, 2017

A married couple holds hands

Genetics

Look Like Your Spouse? It Might Be Your Genes

April 20, 2017

Madeleine Scammell, assistant professor of environmental health

Accolades

Scammell Wins NIEHS Outstanding New Environmental Health Science Award

April 20, 2017

First prototype for an optical chemotherapy monitor, one of the main projects funded by CFTCC.

Biomedical Engineering

It Takes Teamwork

April 7, 2017

Wilson Wong, Boston University Biological Design Center

Engineering Biology

How to Hack a Cell

April 6, 2017

Claudia Satizabal will study the link between midlife obesity and Alzheimer’s disease.

Alzheimer’s Disease

Does Midlife Obesity Increase Odds of Alzheimer’s Disease?

April 6, 2017

Cancer Researcher Avrum Spira, a professor of medicine, pathology, and laboratory medicine at Boston University School of Medicine

Cancer

BU Paves Way for MED Prof’s $10M Plus Partnership with Industry

April 3, 2017

piles of coal at a coal depot

Climate Change

Trump Slams Brakes on Obama’s Climate Plan

March 29, 2017

New Bedford Harbor

Environmental Health

New Bedford Harbor Identified as Major Source of Airborne PCBs

March 23, 2017

Photo of Lucy Hutyra and Andrew Reinmann in the forest

Climate Change

Good News and Bad News about Forest Fragmentation

March 21, 2017

BU researchers Josh Goldford (left) and Daniel Segrè

Data Science

A Missing Piece in the Origin of Life Puzzle

March 9, 2017

PhD candidate Emily Lam works with smart lighting sensors as part of Thomas Little's research with the Lighting Enabled Systems & Applications Engineering Research Center (LESA ERC)

Electrical Engineering

New Sensors for Smart Lighting

March 8, 2017

Human tissue under microscope

Engineering Biology

BU Joins Federal Effort to Engineer Human Tissue

March 2, 2017

Cancer Researcher Avrum Spira, a professor of medicine, pathology, and laboratory medicine at Boston University School of Medicine

Biology

Finding Lung Cancer in the Nose

February 28, 2017

Arctic Ground Squirrel

Archaeology

Arctic Squirrels: Invasive or Native Species?

February 22, 2017

Officers of 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, Ready First 1st Armored Division, participate in an urban combat exercise at a training facility on Fort Bliss, Texas.

Alzheimer’s Disease

Links Found among Concussion, Genes, and Alzheimer’s

February 16, 2017

Postdoctoral Affairs

Is a Postdoc Bad for Your Career?

February 15, 2017

Mckee

CTE

Brain Trauma and CTE

February 3, 2017

Image of black dots of a dalmation

Neuroscience

The Dyslexia Paradox

January 24, 2017

Ebola virus under a microscope

Ebola

Blood Test May Predict Who Lives or Dies with Ebola

January 23, 2017

Blood Test May Predict Who Lives or Dies with Ebola