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Marine science

In His New Book, The Dark Frontier, BU Biologist Explores the Deep Sea—and Provides a Warning on Its Future

Radicalization

How Do Social Movements Emerge—and Why Do Some Radicalize?

Accolades

Squid-Inspired Lab Technology Wins Student Team a Boston University Climate Award

Physics and AI

Boston University Joins National Science Foundation Institute Pushing Frontiers of Physics and AI

Space Weather

We Can Predict Space Weather. What If We Could Also Stop It?

Clean Energy

Boston University Researchers Team Up with Massachusetts to Launch New Clean Energy Tools

Hiking Safety

Chances Are You’re Not Carrying the Right Safety Gear When You Hike

Ebola

How Worried Should We Be About the Bundibugyo Ebola Outbreak?

Urban Geography

Boston University’s Loretta Lees honored by UK’s Royal Geographical Society

Infectious Diseases

Measles, Cholera, and Mpox: BU-Based Outbreak Tracker Monitors World’s Most Dangerous Infectious Diseases

Baseball

Does Spending Big in Major League Baseball Equal On-Field Success?

Internet Cookies

Should You Accept Internet Cookies? BU Researchers Say the Open Web Could Suffer Without Them

Bio-Inspired Engineering

Could This King-Size Citrus Fruit Inspire a Better Mobile Phone Case?

Excess Deaths

Why Does the US Have Higher Death Rates than Other Wealthy Nations?

Dental Health

Heart Attack, Stroke, and Dementia Risk May Be Higher for Older People Who Can’t Afford Dental Care

Innovation

Biomedical Engineer Wilson Wong Is Boston University’s Innovator of the Year

Online Polarization

Studying How Online Images Feed Polarization Wins BU Scholar Prestigious Andrew Carnegie Fellowship

Opioids

How the Legal Opium Market Shaped Global Trade—and Led to an Opioid Crisis

Languages

Boston University Linguist Helps Preserve an Endangered Language in Papua New Guinea

Research News

Brink Bites: Michael J. Fox Parkinson’s Foundation Grant to BU, Widowed Men Have Higher Depression Risk than Women