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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 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

Deepwater Discoveries

There’s More to the Story behind Rare Glass Octopus Footage

July 21, 2021

Detail photo of a fluorescent pink deep sea soft coral with a squat lobster peaking out from inside the coral

Marine Science

The Deep Ocean Reveals Surprising Discovery about Immunity

March 12, 2021

Aerial view of a great white shark chasing a black seal off the shore of a Cape Cod beach

White Sharks

White Sharks Are Here to Stay in New England

September 25, 2020

Climate Action

Joe Biden’s $2 Trillion Climate Plan? BU Scientists Weigh In

July 21, 2020

A photo of fishing boats out for skrei cod in the arctic sea

Sustainable Oceans

How the Past Can Guide Our Stewardship of Tomorrow’s Sustainable Oceans

May 28, 2020

A photo of coral and a dropper.

Natural Sciences

How This New England Coral Is Weathering Climate Change

February 24, 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

Selfie of Boston University student Allie Cole aboard the scientific vessel Robert C. Seamans in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area.

Field Report

What’s It Like to Sample Sea Life in the Remote Pacific?

October 17, 2019

Vector the humpback whale stranded on a beach in Cape Cod.

Marine Biology

A Dead Humpback, a Team of Scientists, a Race for Answers

June 10, 2019

Portrait of Jacob Jaskiel, kneeling, and Hayley Goss, standing, on a Boston Harbor beach with the Boston skyline in the background.

Marine Biology

Microplastic Pollution Found in Seagrasses

February 18, 2019

sea urchin embryo

Engineering Biology

Unfolding Nature’s Patterns

November 29, 2018

A diver reels in a line near a bleached colony of Boulder Star Coral at East Flower Garden Bank.

Marine Biology

Inside the Search for a Coral Killer

October 1, 2018

Biology

Lobsters on the Line

March 26, 2018

Biologist David Obura diving in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) to examine coral reef recovery

Marine Biology

Coral Reef Recovery

October 11, 2017

red eyed tree frog tadpole embryos

Biology

Red-eyed Treefrog Embryos

June 28, 2016

Students in the BU Marine Program snorkel in Calabash Channel and Creek, Belize

Marine Biology

BU Students Discover Corals in Unlikely Place

September 25, 2015

Data Science

Mapmaker/Matchmaker

March 26, 2015

Marine Biology

The Giving Flood

July 14, 2014

The Giving Flood