Science & Technology
![Image: 3d blockchain concept illustration. Blue, connected cubes are connected by various blue lines/chains on a black background.](/files/2022/10/feat-shubham-dhage-T9rKvI3N0NM-unsplash-636x425.jpg)
Computational Science
Beyond Bitcoin: Why Interest in Blockchain Is Surging at BU
![US Senator Ed Markey (Hon.’04) (D-Mass.) at the symposium Sustainability, Health Equity, and Antiracism in the 21st Century, presented by BU’s Center for Antiracist Research, with Katharine Lusk (left), BU Initiative on Cities codirector, and Thea James, a BU Aram V. Chobanian & Edward Avedisian School of Medicine associate professor of emergency medicine.](/files/2022/10/feat-22-1566-RACE-008-636x425.jpg)
Climate Justice
Climate Change Battle Must Include Environmental Justice
![A newspaper burns. On the page the words Climate Change can be seen burning. The image has a greenish tint to it. There is a large red circular overlay on the left with a question mark inside.](/files/2022/09/climate-change-new-feat-for-CMS-Podcast-Cover-Episode-Template-copy-636x425.jpg)
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How Do I Talk to a Climate Change Denier?
![A microscope image of the monkeypox virus, showing small cells with a blue hue](/files/2022/08/feat-crop-monkeypox_stock_image-636x425.jpg)
Infectious Diseases
BU Researchers: We Have the Potential to Prevent Endemic Monkeypox
![Photo of Tess Ravick (ENG’22), back, and Trevor Melsheimer (ENG’22), front work on their senior design project April 29. The device harvests water from the air. Ravick has light brown skin, wears a t-shirt, a white face mask, and their hair in a bun. Melsheimer, who has light skin and a beard and wears a gray sweater, adjusts a level of the black device on the table in front of them.](/files/2022/05/ft-22-1294-WATER-052-636x425.jpg)
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Water, Water, Everywhere—They Hope
![Professor Sean Andersson, left, listens to Franco Julia Wise (ENG’22), at right, as he explains the workings of his team’s Soft Robot with Integrated Soft Optical Sensing for Minimally Invasive Surgery following the May 4 press conference at Phototonics announcing ENG getting $4.4 million from Massachusetts High Technology Council to build a new robotics lab, BU RASTIC, to complement ENG's master's program in robotics and autonomous systems. Photo by Cydney Scott for Boston University Photography](/files/2022/05/crop-22-1231-RAST-200-636x425.jpg)
University News
BU to Open New Robotics Lab to Foster More Student Innovators
![A candlelit vigil in front of the whitehouse for nurses who have died of COVID-19](/files/2022/04/feat-crop-AP_22014347423480-636x425.jpg)
Infectious Diseases