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Natural Sciences

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Brain Health

New BU Center for Brain Recovery Aims to Advance Treatments for Stroke, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s

September 19, 2022

Photo of Dr. Nancy Sullivan of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases discussing Ebola research with President Barack Obama as NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci and HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell look on.

NEIDL Director

Nancy J. Sullivan, Ebola Vaccine and Treatment Pioneer, Named New NEIDL Director

September 16, 2022

Closeup photo of an Aedes aegypti mosquito sucking blood off caucasian skin. A white spotted insect sits atop skin and bites.

Mosquitoes

Mosquitoes Have a Bizarre Sense of Smell, Study Finds

August 18, 2022

Image: Photo of the Carina Nebula. Image looks like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening with an ombre black to blue "sky" filled with stars and a cloud of orange-y red haze/cloud.

Astronomy

“A New Era of Discovery”: We Can Now See the Deepest Infrared View of Space Ever

July 13, 2022

Photo of Pamela Templer (center), Shawn Jones (left), and Yasmin Romitti. From left, a tall Black man with glasses, a dark grey blazer, purpled collared shirt and black pants stands next to a shorter white woman with arms crossed wearing black blouse and pants and red cardigan, and on right a younger, shorter white woman wearing a black and white polka dot shirt and jeans. They all stand, pose, and smile next to each other.

Climate Change

Building a Diverse, Strong Climate Workforce

June 10, 2022

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Technology Development

BU Ignition Awards–From the Lab to Your Life

June 6, 2022

Photograph of the constellation Taurus made by the avid astrophotographer Akira Fujii. In the photo, tiny white dots, stars, fill the image, with a brighter, reddish dot towards the bottom right, which is Taurus.

Space Science

Seeing through the Fog—Pinpointing Young Stars and Their Protoplanetary Disks

May 16, 2022

Image giving the first visual evidence of the presence of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration. EHT Collaboration. In the image, a bright orange blob is seen, sort of resembling a donut, with three brighter yellow spots. The area around the orb is pitch black.

Black Holes

The First Black Hole Image from the Milky Way Is Here

May 13, 2022

Two pairs of hands each hold a box full of scientific sensors in front of a sunlight sky background

Earth & Environment

As Climate Change Gets Worse, Science Provides Hope and Possibility

April 21, 2022

Image of what a heliosphere might look like. Image shows a croissant-shaped light yellow blob, with red lines passing through it, all displayed on a black background

Space Physics

NASA Gives Boost to BU-led Effort to Model Solar System’s Protective Bubble

April 14, 2022

Photo of Benjamin Sovacool. A middle-aged white man wearing glasses and a light pink plaid shirt and jeans poses next to an open window and lightly smiles at the camera.

Sustainability and Climate Change

BU Institute to Focus on Equity and Justice in the Climate Change Fight

March 15, 2022

Photo of a white-tailed deer fawn on a neighborhood front lawn.

Animal Conservation

POV: The Secret to Wildlife Conservation Might Be the “Animal Agency” Approach—Giving Creatures a Role in Their Own Preservation

March 9, 2022

Image of BU Earth and environment researchers Catherine Mahoney, and Amanda Vieillard at Belle Isle Marsh Reservation in Boston, Mass. The women crouch in the yellow grass and set up portable carbon sensors. The Boston City Skyline is seen behind them.

Blue Carbon

Empowering Citizen Scientists to Study and Protect Coastal Wetlands

March 3, 2022

Boston's city skyline showcasing the greenery and trees in the foreground

Forest Edges

City Trees and Soil Are Sucking More Carbon Out of the Atmosphere Than Previously Thought

February 16, 2022

Photo of PhD student Ke Wu wearing a magnetic Metamaterial device. The hat is made of materials in red, yellow, and blue.

Metamaterials

This Bizarre Looking Helmet Can Create Better Brain Scans

February 10, 2022

Image of 4 black and white pencil-style illustrations showcasing the various steps needed for ice-cutting: scraping, grooving, planing and ribbing, and sawing, calking and breaking off.

History

Tracing the History of New England’s Ice Trade

February 4, 2022

See intricate cloud patterns in the northern hemisphere of Jupiter in this new view taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft. The color-enhanced image was taken on April 1, 2018 at 2:32 a.m. PST (5:32 a.m. EST), as Juno performed its twelfth close flyby of Jupiter. At the time the image was taken, the spacecraft was about 7,659 miles (12,326 kilometers) from the tops of the clouds of the planet at a northern latitude of 50.2 degrees. Citizen scientist Kevin M. Gill processed this image using data from the JunoCam imager. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21984 . - Enhanced image by Kevin M. Gill (CC-BY) based on images provided courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS

NASA

Stunning Close-Up Images of Jupiter, Its Storms, and a Dolphin Cloud

January 27, 2022

A woman in a hat stands in front of an electronic billboard that reads 100 degrees

Climate Change

Extreme Heat Could Impact Young and Middle-Aged Adults More than Older Adults

January 11, 2022

photo of Randall skiing in a place called Echo Glacier. She is between a glacier and a mountain, where the ice has melted around the sides.

Climate Science

On Alaska’s Glaciers, Life Is Harsh—and So Is the Reality of Climate Change

December 13, 2021

a model of a heliosphere magnetic field. image shws a rainbow of colors winding and intersecting as if in water.

Astrophysics

Another Breakthrough for Team Studying Our Solar System’s Protective Bubble

December 3, 2021

Another Breakthrough for Team Studying Our Solar System’s Protective Bubble