Labs
![Photo: Pictures of women walking while carrying things on their heads](/files/2024/04/feat-crop-headscarf-screen-shot_720-636x425.jpg)
Mechanical Engineering
How Do People Carry Such Heavy Loads on Their Heads?
![Photo: an up-close portrait of a centenarian wearing glasses and a sweater. Photo is black and white](/files/2024/01/23-1428-PERLS-004-feat-copy-636x425.jpg)
Aging Reimagined
The Secrets of Living to 100
![Photo: A paper showing various blood-like handprints and splatters is shown.](/files/2023/10/Bloodstain-Analysis-and-Forensics-feat-636x425.jpg)
Crime Scene Science
Video: Updating the Science of Bloodstain Analysis and Forensics
![Photo: Lucy Kim, an ?Asian woman wearing glasses, a white lab coat, and purple gloves, works on spreading substance on a large pink screen print with large white squiggles on it. She works in a small lab area.](/files/2023/09/Lucy-Kim-Screenprinting-feat-636x425.jpg)
art and science
Video: Screen Printing with Melanin
![Photo: A group of people pose in font of a building with glass doors. Pictured (from left): Saylor Williams, Manpreet Singh (GRS’24), Gloria Waters, Rebecca Pearl-Martinez, Golden (CAMED’27); Angie Serrano, a BU medical school assistant professor of vascular biology; Dennis Carlberg, and Greg Miller.](/files/2023/06/2023-Anthony-Janetos-Climate-Action-Prize-feat-636x425.jpg)
Sustainability
How to Make Research Labs More Sustainable
![Photo: College of Engineering professors (from left) Rabia Yazicigil, a white woman with short curly hair and wearing a black blouse, oversized blue blazer, and black pants, Mo Khalil, A tan man wearing glasses, brown sweater, and black pants, and Doug Densmore, a light-skinned Black man wearing a long sleeve collared grey shirt and black pants in a lab. Yazicigil and Mo Khalil look to Densmore as he talks and gesticulates.](/files/2023/06/Engineering-a-better-bioreactor-23-1054-ENGRABIA-001-feat-636x425.jpg)
Biomanufacturing
Turning Trash into Medicines, Machine Oils, Cosmetics, and More
![Photo: Three young women hold up puppets on their right hand and smile into the camera. From left, she has short brown hair and wears a monochromatic tan outfit. In the middle, a white woman with long brown hair and a stripped shirt. On the right, a Black woman with shoulder length straight hair. She wears an all black outfit.](/files/2023/05/puppets-communicating-brink-636x425.jpg)
SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
Communicating Science and Research—through Puppets
![Nipah viruses binding receptors on human cells, an initial stage of Nipah infection. A newly emerging bat-borne virus that causes acute respiratory illness and severe encephalitis, 3D illustration. Large orange balls with spikes surrounding them attach to tree-like structures sticking up off of a large sphere.](/files/2023/02/Nipah-Virus-iStock-1328468053-feat-crop-copy-636x425.jpg)
Emerging Pathogens