Research

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?

Clergy Burnout

Finding Her Voice, in Song and Healing Research at Boston University

Television and Media

TV Viewership Is Down. The Oscars Are YouTube-Bound. Is TV Dying?

Accolades

Two Boston University Researchers Elected AAAS Fellows

Intellectual Disabilities

Including People with Down Syndrome and Intellectual Disabilities in Research That Affects Them

Antibiotic Resistance

WHO Joins Forces with BU Center on Forced Displacement to Help Vulnerable Populations at Risk of Antimicrobial Resistance

Workplace Stress

How to Deal with Rude Customers

Accolades

Biologist Jeffrey Marlow Awarded National Academies’ New Voices Honor

COVID Vaccines

Big Majority of Young Adults Are Pro-COVID Vaccine, Driven to Protect Themselves and Community, BU Study Finds

Convergence

Can AI Help Predict the Earth’s Climate a Decade from Now?