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Natural Sciences

red tide

Data Science

Can Scientists Learn to Make “Nature Forecasts” Just as We Forecast the Weather?

January 31, 2018

Romanian wildflowers

Environment & Ecology

Is species richness increasing? An intense ecological debate

January 22, 2018

When charged particles from the sun hit the Earth’s magnetic field, they can generate the dancing lights of the aurora. The ANDESITE mission will help reveal how the energy that creates the aurora passes from the Sun into Earth’s atmosphere. Photo courtesy of Greenland Travel

Space Sciences

NASA to Launch BU Student-Built Microsatellites

January 22, 2018

CTE in teenage brains

CTE

BU-Led Study: CTE May Occur without Concussions

January 18, 2018

Bacterial colonies grown from Kombucha in a petri dish to be used for probiotics research

Biology

Putting Probiotic Supplements to the Test

January 16, 2018

Portrait of Boston University faculty Pamela Templer, Lucy Hutyra, and Jonathan Levy

Biology

BU Scientists Get $3 Million NSF Research Traineeship Grant

December 20, 2017

Vervet monkeys in the wild do not get fat, but monkeys in captivity do. Schmitt wants to understand what combination of genes, environment, and ancestry may trigger obesity. Photos by Ryan Cadiz

Biology

Chunky Monkeys

December 19, 2017

Harvard Forest in Petersham, Mass., is a more than 3,700-acre ecological research area where scientists have been carrying out experiments since 1907.

Climate Change

CAS Researchers Working to Predict Future Climate Change

December 14, 2017

Diane Thompson extracting a core from a live Porites coral colony at Kiritimati in 2012.

Geosciences

Winds of Change

December 11, 2017

BU researchers Rahm Gummuluru and Bjoern Reinhard receive $2.7 million from NIH-NIAID

Medicine

Fighting HIV through a Better Delivery Method of Anti-retrovirals

December 7, 2017

The blood vessel on the chip

Engineering Biology

Why Blood Vessels Leak

December 6, 2017

ACES CO2 map visualizing carbon dioxide CO2 emissions in Rhode Island

Climate Change

CAS Scientists Develop ACES to Monitor Greenhouse-Gas Emissions

December 4, 2017

M/V Shear Water

Environment & Ecology

Hurricane Irma Wreaked Havoc Under the Sea, Too

November 30, 2017

microscopic image of tau tangles

Alzheimer’s Disease

MED Researchers: New Way to Look at Alzheimer’s

November 30, 2017

Communications

How to Convince a Climate Change Skeptic

November 28, 2017

Professor of Archaeology Catherine West holds a clamshell in Dutch Harbor middens where she studies ancient climate change adaptation in the Aleutian Islands.

Archaeology

Clamshells and Climate Change

November 14, 2017

Larry Sulak, David M. Myers Distinguished Professor and College of Arts & Sciences chairman emeritus of physics at Boston University, and winner of the 2018 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in experimental particle physics

Physics

Larry Sulak Wins Top US Prize in Experimental Particle Physics

November 6, 2017

Biology

Avrum Spira Leads “Stand Up to Cancer” Dream Team

November 1, 2017

Mark Veyette

Space Sciences

Searching for Life around the Stars

October 24, 2017

Synthetic biology researcher Ahmad "Mo" Khalil, assistant professor of biological engineering at Boston University, and researcher at the Boston University Biological Design Center

Engineering Biology

Shedding Light on a Puzzling Protein Process

October 20, 2017

Shedding Light on a Puzzling Protein Process