As much as 5 to 10 percent of material in a permanently shadowed lunar crater could be patchy ice, according to the team of researchers led by Bradley Thomson at Boston University’s Center for Remote Sensing.
Two groups of high schoolers explored x-ray crystallography and nanotechnology with CAS Chemistry Department faculty members this spring and summer.
A series of recent publications by CAS Earth & Environment researchers have focused on the field of garnet geochronology. The findings in this area were made possible by the National Science Foundation-funded BU-TIMS research facility.
The findings of a team of researchers from BU, MIT and a number of other institutions have promising implications for the development of terahertz semi-conductors and other applications.
A delegation of Boston University (BU) faculty, including the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, joined other Discovery Channel Telescope partners this weekend to celebrate the new telescope’s “first light” (first observation of a distant astronomical object).
Physics major Kelsey Bilsback, an intern at the CERN Laboratory in Geneva, finds herself among physicists from around the world flying high after CERN’s confirmation July 4 of evidence of a new subatomic particle that could dramatically advance our understanding of the universe.
The MacArthur Foundation recently approved a $500,000 grant to a group of BU researchers to “support improving the scientific understanding of water and fisheries resource use in the Tonle Sap region” of Cambodia.
CAS professors James Winn of the Department of English and James McCann of the Department of History are taking a temporary break from their normal duties to focus on a year of intensive research, with help from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
On June 5, Venus will make one of its rare transits across the surface of the sun. The Boston University Astronomy Department and BU Center for Space Research will host an event to allow as many visitors as possible a safe glimpse of this event.
In the last known largely unexcavated Maya megacity, archaeologists including CAS’ William Saturno have uncovered the only known mural in an ancient Maya house, a new study says—and it’s not just any mural.