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Pioneering Research from Boston University

Photo: A doctor explains the Mammogram Procedure to a Topless Medium-skin toned Patient with Curly Hair Undergoing Mammography Scan.

Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer Screenings Should Now Begin at Age 40

May 12, 2023

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May 11, 2023

Photo: BU’s Xin Zhang (right) collects the STAT Madness 2023 All-Star award from Nicholas St. Fleur, a STAT general assignment reporter and associate editorial director of events. An Asian woman (right) with short black hair and wearing a purple collared shirt holds up a clear glass trophy with a Black man with brown hair in a curly poof and wearing a tan suit.

Metamaterials

Xin Zhang Wins STAT Madness 2023 All-Star Award

May 11, 2023

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May 10, 2023

Photo: A long medical-grade face mask is shown illuminated in a dark room. Scene has a somber mood.

Coronavirus

COVID-19 Is No Longer an Official Emergency. Is That the Right Call?

May 10, 2023

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May 9, 2023

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expert take

Is Suing Visa the Best Way to Shut Down Pornhub?

May 9, 2023

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May 5, 2023

Photo: A trans couple laugh and looks at each other lovingly in the golden hour of sunlight. They lounge on a blanket in a park.

Relationships

The Science of Attraction: Why Do We Fall for Certain People?

May 5, 2023

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May 3, 2023

Photo: Isabel Novick, a white woman with wavy brown hair and wearing a cream long sleeved blouse smiles as she peers out from the other side of a clothes rack. She pushes aside a set of clothes and poses from in between them.

Ecology

Elevating the Clothes-Eating Moth from Pest to Evolutionary Marvel

May 3, 2023

Photo: Engineering Professor, Dr. Ji-Xin Cheng, an Asian man wearing a grey pullover sweater, poses for a photo in his lab. A blue light gives the photo a cool-themed feel as Cheng looks to the left and stands in front of a table full of various mechanical engineering equipment.

Innovator of the Year

Ji-Xin Cheng Is BU’s 2022 Innovator of the Year

May 1, 2023

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May 1, 2023

Kevin Outterson, a white man with silver white hair and wearing glasses and a grey suit sits at the center of a long table in a hearing room. To his right sits Amanda Jezek, a white woman with curly brown hair wearing glasses, a white blouse, and turquoise blazer, and Amy Mathers, a white woman wearing a tweed blouse and black blazer. They all sit in front of individual microphones and paper nameplates.

Testifying to Congress on Antibiotics

May 1, 2023

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April 28, 2023

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April 26, 2023

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

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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

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