Research

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

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

Research News

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

Brain Science

Songbird Brains Can Generate New Neurons. Can We Help Human Brains Do the Same?

Retinal Disease

Could a Retinal Prosthesis Restore Sight for People with Age-Related Macular Degeneration?

Hearing Loss

What Is the Cocktail Party Problem—and Can New Boston University Research Solve It?