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Pioneering Research from Boston University

When charged particles from the sun hit the Earth’s magnetic field, they can generate the dancing lights of the aurora. The ANDESITE mission will help reveal how the energy that creates the aurora passes from the Sun into Earth’s atmosphere. Photo courtesy of Greenland Travel

Space Sciences

NASA to Launch BU Student-Built Microsatellites

January 22, 2018

CTE in teenage brains

CTE

BU-Led Study: CTE May Occur without Concussions

January 18, 2018

Bacterial colonies grown from Kombucha in a petri dish to be used for probiotics research

Biology

Putting Probiotic Supplements to the Test

January 16, 2018

Zakim Bridge Boston

Public Health

Air Pollution Inequality Growing in Massachusetts

January 12, 2018

Steve Ramirez

Neuroscience

Ramirez Receives 2018 McKnight Award

January 9, 2018

Portrait of Boston University faculty Pamela Templer, Lucy Hutyra, and Jonathan Levy

Biology

BU Scientists Get $3 Million NSF Research Traineeship Grant

December 20, 2017

Vervet monkeys in the wild do not get fat, but monkeys in captivity do. Schmitt wants to understand what combination of genes, environment, and ancestry may trigger obesity. Photos by Ryan Cadiz

Biology

Chunky Monkeys

December 19, 2017

Harvard Forest in Petersham, Mass., is a more than 3,700-acre ecological research area where scientists have been carrying out experiments since 1907.

Climate Change

CAS Researchers Working to Predict Future Climate Change

December 14, 2017

Rehabilitation Sciences

Magic Words

December 11, 2017

Professor Joyce Y. Wong and Professor Eric D. Kolaczyk

Accolades

AAAS Names Two BU Faculty as 2017 Fellows

December 11, 2017

Woman getting mammogram

Cancer

NIH Awards $8.6M to BU Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute and Colleagues

December 11, 2017

Diane Thompson extracting a core from a live Porites coral colony at Kiritimati in 2012.

Geosciences

Winds of Change

December 11, 2017

BU researchers Rahm Gummuluru and Bjoern Reinhard receive $2.7 million from NIH-NIAID

Medicine

Fighting HIV through a Better Delivery Method of Anti-retrovirals

December 7, 2017

Lynn Rosenberg, a principal investigator of the Black Women’s Health Study

Accolades

Helping Black Women Beat Insomnia

December 7, 2017

The blood vessel on the chip

Engineering Biology

Why Blood Vessels Leak

December 6, 2017

ACES CO2 map visualizing carbon dioxide CO2 emissions in Rhode Island

Climate Change

CAS Scientists Develop ACES to Monitor Greenhouse-Gas Emissions

December 4, 2017

Wenxin Feng (GRS’19), left, and the team at Pison Technology are working on a device to help people with ALS. Photo by Gretchen Ertl (COM’95)

Healthcare Technologies

Wearable Tech to Help People with ALS

November 30, 2017

Sick kid with high fever laying in bed while mother checks the temperature

Global Health

TB as Major Cause of Death among Children Worldwide

November 30, 2017

M/V Shear Water

Environment & Ecology

Hurricane Irma Wreaked Havoc Under the Sea, Too

November 30, 2017

microscopic image of tau tangles

Alzheimer’s Disease

MED Researchers: New Way to Look at Alzheimer’s

November 30, 2017

MED Researchers: New Way to Look at Alzheimer’s