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January 6, 2025

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Expert Take

Cycling Can Make Older Adults Healthier and More Independent. Here’s How to Design Bikes and Networks That Meet Their Needs

January 6, 2025

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December 19, 2024

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December 16, 2024

Research

Best of The Brink 2024: 10 Inspiring Inventions and Discoveries—All from BU Researchers

December 13, 2024

Research

Best of The Brink 2024: BU’s 10 Most-Read Science and Research Stories

December 13, 2024

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December 10, 2024

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Ecological Forecasting

Can Ecological Forecasting Help Us Predict Wildfires?

December 10, 2024

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Photonics

Could Twisting Beams of Light Make the Internet Faster—and Greener?

December 10, 2024

Brink 12-06-2024

December 6, 2024

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CTE and Ice Hockey

BU Study Finds Longer Ice Hockey Careers Increase Risk of CTE

December 6, 2024

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December 5, 2024

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Religion and Ukraine

BU Student Researched How Russian Religion Fuels War in Ukraine

December 5, 2024

Brink 12-03-2024

December 3, 2024

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Opera

How a BU Researcher Found and Revived a Long-Lost Operatic Masterpiece

December 3, 2024

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Research News

Brink Bites: Finding Love Online and Preserving Black American Sign Language

November 27, 2024

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November 21, 2024

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NEIDL

West Nile, Zika, Coronavirus: This BU Researcher Is Taking On Some of the World’s Most Serious Viruses—and He Plans to Win

November 21, 2024

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Politics

What Could Donald Trump’s Second Presidential Term Mean for Science, Scientists, and Research?

November 21, 2024

Brink 11-18-2024

November 18, 2024