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Science & Technology

A student with a backpack walks through a library

Education

BU Researchers Find a Potential Biomarker for Long-lasting Learning

July 16, 2018

Close-up Egyptian fruit bat or rousette, Rousettus aegyptiacus. on isolated black background

Infectious Diseases

Marburg Virus Can’t Kill Bats. Why?

July 13, 2018

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Judge Brett Kavanaugh his Supreme Court nominee

Science & Technology

POV: Brett Kavanaugh, Conservative or Constitutionalist?

July 11, 2018

Gilliland Observatory

Space

Astronomy After Hours at the Museum of Science Tonight

July 6, 2018

Photo: Student researcher Elizabeth Hannigan, a white woman with long red hair tied into a braid and wearing a black tee shirt and jeans, poses at an archaeological site.

Global

Examining a Woman’s Role—1,300 Years Ago

July 5, 2018

Jeffrey Geddes

Earth & Environment

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

July 5, 2018

Protesters gather outside the Supreme Court House.

Global

LAW Prof: SCOTUS Travel Ban Decision Reflects a “Dark Era”

June 29, 2018

Progressive Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez celebrartes with supporters at a victory party in the Bronx after upsetting incumbent Democratic Representative Joseph Crowly on June 26, 2018 in New York City. Ocasio-Cortez upset Rep. Joseph Crowley in New York’s 14th Congressional District.

Alumni

BU Alumna Wins Upset Congressional Primary in New York City

June 27, 2018

Trump signing an executive order to stop the separation of families

Immigration

What Does Trump’s Immigration Order Mean?

June 22, 2018

A Mexican woman holds a doll next to children at the Paso Del Norte Port of Entry, in the US-Mexico border in Chihuahua state, Mexico on June 20, 2018

Voices & Opinion

POV: Harm of Border Separations Will Haunt US Future

June 21, 2018

Gina Ortiz Jones, candidate for the Texas 23rd district seat in the U.S. House of Representatives

Politics

A Different Kind of Texas Candidate

June 18, 2018

Vivien Schmidt

Accolades

Pardee’s Vivien Schmidt Wins Guggenheim Fellowship

June 15, 2018

counterfeit pills

Global Health

Fellowship Available for Study of Poor-Quality Drugs, Disease Resistance

June 14, 2018

A Planned Parenthood supporter holds a sign that says "Don't take away my birth control" at a rally in New York City.

Politics

POV: New Title X Birth Control Rule Bad for the Nation’s Health

June 11, 2018

John Kerry

Politics

Fixing Climate Change Is Good Business, Whatever President Trump Says

June 11, 2018

Avi Spira

Cancer

BU and Johnson & Johnson Innovation Team Up to Fight Lung Cancer

June 6, 2018

Politics

SCOTUS Gay Marriage Decision Rests on Antireligious Rhetoric

June 6, 2018

Doug Most

Technology

Veteran Boston Globe Editor to Take the Helm at BU Today, Bostonia, and Research

June 5, 2018

Robert F Kennedy holds two fingers up in a victory sign as he talks to campaign workers at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, prior to his assassination.

Science & Technology

POV: Remembering RFK, 50 Years Later

June 5, 2018

Clinicians work at an Ebola Virus vaccination clinic in Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of Congo, during an outbreak in May of 2018

Ebola

BU Experts on New Ebola Outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo

May 31, 2018

BU Experts on New Ebola Outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo