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Science & Technology

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

Double Exposure image of a man wearing Oculus Rift virutal reality goggles with nightmarish visions of a dark figure walking towards him out of a fiery forest background inside his head

Psychiatry & Psychology

How Virtual Reality Might Help Fight Recurring Nightmares

January 30, 2019

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Climate Change

Eight Ways Boston Could Become Carbon Free

January 29, 2019

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University News

Ban or Embrace: Professors Share Strategies for Cell Phones in Class

January 29, 2019

An SUV emits gas emissions

Earth

POV: It’s Time to Dethrone the SUV

January 28, 2019

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Ebola

Spotting Ebola in the Crowd

January 28, 2019

Concept photo of a United States shaped pill box holding a lot of pills resting on an American flag, symbolizing the opioid crisi in America

Marketing

In America’s Opioid Crisis, Drug Marketing Is a Matter of Life or Death

January 23, 2019

A person celebrates new years eve wearing 2019 glasses

Health & Medicine

Predictions for 2019 from BU Experts

January 22, 2019

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Politics

Eight Big Questions US Mayors Faced in 2018

January 22, 2019

Alexandra Ocasio Cortez talks democratic socialism on Colbert Show

Government & Law

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (CAS’11) Talks Democratic Socialism with Stephen Colbert

January 22, 2019

Michael Albro, an assistant professor at the College of Engineering, is working to develop innovative growth factor delivery strategies to overcome several of the major challenges in cartilage tissue engineering. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Arthritis

Crossing the Scientific Aisle to Advance Tissue Engineering

January 17, 2019

a man uses a vape

Health & Medicine

Vaping Slows Wound Healing Just as Much as Smoking

January 17, 2019

Vinod Sarin

Accolades

Vinod Sarin Elected to National Academy of Inventors

January 16, 2019

Darrell Eager/Getty Images (office); Shutterstock (robot).

Business & Law

So Much for the Robocalypse

January 16, 2019

Portrait of Jerry Chen, Boston University College of Arts and Sciences assistant professor of biology, leaning against windows outside a building so that his reflection can be seen to the left.

Accolades

NIH New Innovator Award Will Advance Brain Science

January 15, 2019

Deepak Kumar uses a 3-D motion capture system

Arthritis

Mindful Walking

January 15, 2019

Microscopic image of tuberculosis bacteria

Biology

How Bad Drugs Turn Treatable Diseases Deadly

January 14, 2019

Law

Offering a Helping Hand to Migrants Waiting to Enter the US

January 14, 2019

A photo of the Lincoln memorial with a sign stating that all national parks are closed due to the government shutdown

Research

What You Need to Know about the Government Shutdown

January 8, 2019

Video still of US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dancing in a video filmed while she was in college at Boston University

Alumni

The Story Behind Ocasio-Cortez’s Dancing Video—from Those Who Made It

January 4, 2019

The Story Behind Ocasio-Cortez’s Dancing Video—from Those Who Made It