Disease

Heat Illness

How Does Heat Exposure Affect the Body and Mind?

Environmental Health

As Temperatures Set Records, Heat Exposure Hits Some Neighborhoods Harder than Others

Neuroscience

How Sleep Is Impacted by Brain Circuitry and Aging

CORONAVIRUS VACCINES

Study Reveals Recipe for Even More Powerful COVID-19 Vaccines

Breast Cancer

Does Using Hair Relaxers Cause Higher Breast Cancer Risk for Black Women?

Alzheimer’s Disease

FDA Approves First Alzheimer’s Treatment in 18 Years. Now What?

POV

How Getting COVID-19 Made Me a Better Public Health Researcher

Health & Wellness

Massachusetts Ranked No. 1 Healthiest State on National Community Well-Being Index

Microbiomes

“Synthetic Ecology” Seeks to Boost Health by Engineering the Environment

Infectious Diseases

Where Is COVID Research Going Next?

Science Leadership

From the Broad Institute to the White House: Eric Lander Makes Science Exciting

Environmental Health

In the Northeast, Improved Walking and Bicycling Infrastructure Could Save Hundreds of Lives, Billions of Dollars

Research Accolades

Meet BU’s Newest AAAS Fellows

CONTACT TRACING

Why “Bidirectional” Contact Tracing Could Drastically Curb Coronavirus Spread—Especially the B-117 Strain

COVID-19 Research

How Coronavirus Damages Lung Cells within Mere Hours

Biden Administration

CDC Director Appointee Rochelle Walensky “Won’t Be Susceptible to Political Pressure”

Vaping

Vaping Could Make You 40 Percent More Likely to Get Respiratory Disease

Veterans' Health

Three Discoveries That Could Impact Diagnosis, Treatment of PTSD and Gulf War Illness

Alzheimer’s Disease

Biogen’s New Alzheimer’s Drug Is “Hugely Important,” “One of the Biggest Moments” in 20 Years

Opinion

A Science Editor’s Love Letter to Hope