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Photo: Xin Zhang, an Asian woman with short black hair and wearing a burnt orange collared shirt is shown smiling and standing with arms crossed poses in her lab. She wears Computer materials can be seen behind her.

Metamaterials

Xin Zhang to Compete for STAT Madness All-Star Award

April 25, 2023

Image: Vector illustration showing Long-term effects of covid-19 or post covid syndrome. Depression, dyspnea, arrhythmia, eczema, indigestion and others symptoms are shown with a person expressing/miming them in various ways in six different bubbles on a white background.

Long COVID

What We Know about Long COVID—and What We Don’t

April 24, 2023

Photo: Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall volcano erupts in the background as Peter Schroedl, a person wearing black clothes, a face mask, orange neon vest collects specimens from volcanic rocks in the foreground.

Microbes

What Microbes Can Tell Us about Life on Earth and in Space

April 24, 2023

Photo: Close-up of a car accident involving two cars on a city street. The cards were in a "fender bender" and shows one car crashed into the rear end of another.

Insurance Economics

Ray Fisman’s New Book Examines Insurance Market—and its Flaws

April 18, 2023

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Traveler’s Diarrhea

Here’s the Scoop on Poop—Traveler’s Diarrhea Could Soon Be Washed Away

April 11, 2023

Photo: Dr. Bokulich, a white woman with long, dark brown hair and wearing a long black dress with long sleeves, poses in her cozy office. A tall warm-light lamp lights the room as Bokulich stands and poses next to a floral armchair and in front of a small, filled bookcase.

Philosophy of Geoscience

Are We Really in a Sixth Mass Extinction?

April 10, 2023

Photo: An Ecologist in a yellow raincoat Taking a Water Sample in the Forest

Expert Take

Women, LGBTQ+ Biologists Are Twice as Likely to Face Hostile Behavior at Work

April 6, 2023

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Race and Racism

How to Talk to Kids about Race and Help Them Make More Interracial Friendships

April 4, 2023

Photo: A white hands holds up a petri dish holding the yeast candida auris in a laboratory. a Petri dish with speckles of white dots/fungi is shown.

Fungus

A New Drug-Resistant Fungus Is Spreading in Hospitals. Is It The Last of Us in Real Life?

March 28, 2023

Photo: Elementary students are shown working with a teacher in library. A few small students look on as a teacher bends over them and points something out to them in a book on the table. Small bookcases can be seen behind them.

Education

How to Help Kids Become Better Readers

March 27, 2023

Photo: Protesters hold a placard that says, "Protect trans youth" and "Gay" inside the Indiana Statehouse. A young woman with short curly red hair holds a sign that reads "Protect trans youth" and a masked person next to her holds a word bubble sign that reads "Gay" . The two stand with other masked and unmasked protestors in a statehouse.

Mental Health

How Will Anti-Trans Laws Impact Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth Mental Health?

March 24, 2023

Photo: To the far left, Andrew Reid Bell, a white man wearing a green cap, looks on as a small group of dark-skinned Black women and men look to tablets on a multi-colored, checkered long table. They are in a small wooden dwelling with an open doorway and cross-patterned open windows letting light in.

Conservation

How Do We Make Farming Better for the Planet? Ask Women

March 16, 2023

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Environmental Health

Skiers and Snowboarders Could Be Exposing Themselves to Harmful “Forever Chemicals” Without Realizing

March 14, 2023

Image: Concept illustration of Advanced Air Mobility, with its many vehicle concepts and potential uses in both local and intraregional applications. Mockup of multiple types of aircrafts are depicted flying over urban, suburban and rural areas.

NASA

Delivery Drones and Rotor-Powered Rideshares Sound Great—and Noisy

March 14, 2023

From left, Oliver McRae, Lena Dubitsky and James "Jacy" Bird, an ENG associate professor have been studying what bubbles can teach us about how microplastics, viruses, and bacteria aerosolize. Bird just put out a paper on his findings. The team worked in the lab, Wednesday, February 15, 2023. Photo by Jake Belcher. Three people stand in a lab setting with highspeed cameras and other technical equipment setup nearby.

Bubbles

New Bubble Popping Theory Could Help Track Ocean Pollution and Viruses

March 9, 2023

Photo: The Tobin Bridge is shown over the Mystic River in Massachusetts. A large, cantilever truss bridge is shown over a slightly foggy body of water with a small line of boats docked underneath. The city of Boston can be seen in the distant skyline.

Climate Resilience

Climate Change Is Threatening the Mystic River Watershed—Can It Be Saved?

March 7, 2023

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Football

New BU Study Finds Tackle Football at Young Age Raises Risk for Brain Decline Later

March 6, 2023

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Racism

Experiencing Racism Increases Black Women’s Heart Disease Risk, BU Research Finds

March 1, 2023

Ngozi Okidegbe , associate professor of law and an assistant professor of computing and data sciences, poses for a photo on January 10, 2023. She is the first person at BU to hold such a joint position. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi for Boston University

AI & Law

Algorithms Were Supposed to Reduce Bias in Criminal Justice—Do They?

February 23, 2023

FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 11, 2019, file photo, Bruce Willis attends the "Motherless Brooklyn" premiere during the 57th New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall, in New York. People in Mississippi’s capital city are being told to expect downtown street closures and explosions for the filming of an action movie that stars Willis. A bank heist movie called “A Day to Die” has been filming in Jackson in April 2021, with Willis shooting scenes in several places, including a street outside the Governor’s Mansion. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Dementia

What Now for Bruce Willis after Actor’s Recent Dementia Diagnosis?

February 17, 2023

What Now for Bruce Willis after Actor’s Recent Dementia Diagnosis?