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Physical Science

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With Space Tourism a Reality, Will Civilians Travel to Space? And When?

September 16, 2021

Physical Science

Particles and Pizza

June 18, 2019

The 4 Honorary Degree Recipients

Marsh Chapel

Meet This Year’s Honorary Degree Recipients

May 13, 2019

Portrait of Boston University College of Engineering professor Siddharth Ramachandran.

Engineering

ENG Prof Named 2019 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow by DOD

May 6, 2019

side by side portraits of Rosina Georgiadis and Khiara Bridges

University News

Two BU Faculty Members to Be Honored Today

April 25, 2019

The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the center of Messier 87 and its shadow. The shadow of a black hole seen here is the closest we can come to an image of the black hole itself, a completely dark object from which light cannot escape. Credit: EHT Collaboration

Astronomy

The First Black Hole Image Is Here

April 11, 2019

David Bishop

Accolades

ENG’s David Bishop Tapped as Member of National Academy of Engineering

March 1, 2019

Illustration of Einstein

Physical Science

Friendly Feud: How Best to Study the Physical Properties of the Universe

February 28, 2019

Photo by Quinn Nietfeld on Unsplash

In the City

POV: Grand Canyon Celebrates 100th Anniversary as a US National Park

February 26, 2019

A hand pulls back on a rubber band getting ready to "shoot" it from a lab machine as part of an experiment researching physics of shooting rubber bands and plucking guitar strings

Physics

Slingshot Surprise

January 31, 2019

Vinod Sarin

Accolades

Vinod Sarin Elected to National Academy of Inventors

January 16, 2019

Osamu Shimomura receives his Nobel medal in 2008

Accolades

Nobel Laureate Osamu Shimomura (Hon.’10) Dead at 90

October 23, 2018

A pumpkin plummets to the ground during the annual pumpkin drop

Film & TV

The Weekender: October 25 to 28

October 23, 2018

a pile of multicolored condoms

Biomedical Engineering

New Self-Lubricating Condom Would Revolutionize Safe Sex

October 18, 2018

Jason Chase, painter and artist-in-residence at NanoLabs, poses with a black dress painted with Singularity Black paint that will be on display at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Alumni

The New Black: the Least Reflective Paint Ever

October 10, 2018

Malika Jeffries-EL researches “organic semiconductors,” the processing and electronic properties of which make them useful in technologies from LEDs to solar cells. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Chemistry

CAS/ENG Scholar Earns Prestigious Honor

August 8, 2018

Jeffrey Geddes

Earth & Environment

CAS Prof Wins Nearly $1M to Study Interaction of Natural and Human Emissions

July 5, 2018

cluster of drug-resistant Campylobacter bacteria.

Medicine

BU-Based CARB-X Antimicrobial Partnership Gets Another $50 Million Plus

May 22, 2018

Alice Gast

Physical Science

Imperial College London President: STEM Must Attract Girls Early

May 14, 2018

Better eating through chemistry: Scott Schaus explains the chemical combinations behind food’s taste in a class about this science’s everyday applications.

Academics

Lemonade without Lemons, and Other Marvels of Chemistry

May 11, 2018

Lemonade without Lemons, and Other Marvels of Chemistry