“Eureka!” might serve as a proper summary for Boston University’s scientific community in 2014. But given this year’s wealth of topics investigated by faculty, staff and students, catchphrases...
In a country where it’s easier — and cheaper — for many to dine on a bacon, cheese and chicken patty sandwich or a bread bowl stuffed with cheesy pasta, perhaps it is no surprise that more than one-third...
About 79 million Americans are currently infected with human papillomavirus, a commonly overlooked sexually transmitted infection, with an estimated 14 million more infected each year, according to the...
When culinary creativity and scientific principle meet up for a drink, celebrity chef Alton Brown is not always the one responsible. Café ArtScience, the brainchild of Harvard University biomedical engineering...
Eat this. Wear that. And make sure to do what? When faced with decisions of all sorts, defaulting to outside influence is natural: Well, what is everyone else doing? This “I’ll jump if you do” tendency...
Honks and profanity are surefire ways of letting off some five o’clock steam, but when all is said and done, there’s a reason why the phrase “stuck in traffic” sticks. But the inch-by-inch stop-and-go...
From newspapers and television to Twitter and word of mouth, 2014 has been saturated with news over the rare and infectious Ebola virus. Most recent is the case of Kaci Hickox, a Maine nurse who was isolated...
In shows like "Law & Order" and "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," it only takes an hour to nab the perpetrator of a crime. And thanks to the creation of a new computational tool by Catherine Grgicak,...
Although scientists have long been studying the impacts of rising temperatures on Earth and attempting to make words like “climate change” and “global warming” part of the United States vocabulary,...
“Water, water everywhere,” goes the old rhyme. And while 71 percent of the Earth is water, this important resource is threatened by harmful practices that can contaminate or drastically drain the world’s...
Aside from sipping cider and piecing together Halloween costumes, October is also National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The Daily Free Press spoke with David Sherr, a professor of environmental health...
Wake up. Grab coffee. Go to class. Commute home. Eat. Sleep. Repeat. The hustle and bustle of daily life can serve as one of physical health’s greatest detractors. Fortunately, the growth of mobile health,...
