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Physics

A photo of a bubble breaking

Science of Bubbles

Popping a Commonly Experienced Mystery: Why Do Bubbles Collapse?

September 10, 2020

High-resolution rendered image of the Serpens South star cluster and the molecular cloud surrounding it.

Star Formation

Gazing into Magnetized Interstellar Clouds to Understand How Stars Are Born

September 1, 2020

Composite image of 2020 NSF CAREER Award winners from Boston University

NSF CAREER Awards

Meet BU’s Newest NSF CAREER Award Winners

August 5, 2020

A photo of a spiral galaxy

Astrophysics

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

June 4, 2020

A photo of an empty lab in BU’s Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering

Return to Campus Labs

BU Unveils First Phase of Campuswide Research Recovery Plan

May 6, 2020

A sketch of a respiratory isolation box

Problem Solvers

BU Engineers Are Taking on the Coronavirus Pandemic

April 17, 2020

An illustration of the heliosphere

Space Physics

Reimagining Our Solar System’s Protective Bubble, the Heliosphere

March 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

Mark Greenman

STEM Education

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

October 15, 2019

Scientific illustration of Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), otherwise known as Nightmare Bacteria.

Superbugs

Superbug detector is first diagnostic to launch from CARB-X

September 24, 2019

Grant holds a photosensor

NUCLEAR WEAPONS

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

July 29, 2019

BU optics engineer, Siddharth Ramachandran, named 2019 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow by DOD

Accolades

Siddharth Ramachandran

May 2, 2019

The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the center of Messier 87 and its shadow. The shadow of a 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. Credit: EHT Collaboration

Astronomy

The First Black Hole Image Is Here

April 11, 2019

Space Sciences

Female Scientists React Before—and After—NASA’s All-Women Spacewalk Was Canceled

April 3, 2019

David Bishop

Accolades

ENG’s David Bishop Tapped as Member of National Academy of Engineering

March 1, 2019

A hand pulls back on a rubber band getting ready to "shoot" it from a lab machine as part of an experiment researching physics of shooting rubber bands and plucking guitar strings

Physics

Slingshot Surprise

January 31, 2019

Masha Kamenetska, assistant professor of Physics at Boston University

Accolades

Masha Kamenetska

October 5, 2018

Sahar Sharifzadeh, assistant professor of engineering at Boston University College of Engineering

Accolades

BU Prof Named One of Scientific American’s 11 Rising Stars of Science

September 28, 2018

bulk silicon electronic-photonic chip designed by the MIT, UC Berkeley and Boston University team

Photonics

Researchers Illuminate the Path to a New Era of Microelectronics

April 23, 2018

Wen Li (from left), Anushya Chandran, and Jennifer Balakrishnan have received 2018 Sloan Research Fellowships.

Physics

Sloan Fellowships Go to BU Astronomer, Physicist, and Mathematician

March 21, 2018

Sloan Fellowships Go to BU Astronomer, Physicist, and Mathematician