Bee is for Boston
Boston’s Copley Square is the epitome of urban life. But hiding in the midst of this metropolis are colonies of honeybees.
Posts from the ‘BU News Service’ category
Print Your Own Museum
If you were ever one of those kids who wanted a dinosaur (me!) or an airplane growing up, you may just get your wish after all thanks to the Smithsonian Institution’s new 3D printing initiative.
The Push to Make Wind Farms Less Deadly
There is nothing more majestic than an eagle soaring through the sky, but the rise of renewable energy—especially wind energy—is encroaching on their airspace with deadly consequences.
What’s Melting Starfish?
If starfish could talk, we’d probably hear them screaming “I’m melting…melting!” Along the west coast of the U.S. and Canada, starfish are dying off in massive numbers, succumbing to sea star wasting syndrome—a mysterious illness that turns them into what scientists are calling piles of white goop.
Opinion: Closing the Food Gap
We can address America’s hunger problem by using food more efficiently, but first we need to re-examine and re-define our food system.
The Spooktacular Sounds of Halloween
The staples of any good Halloween are candy, cobwebs, skeletons and other scary creatures, and of course the eerie music of the theremin–the world’s strangest and…
Invasion of the Stink Bugs
Have you noticed a strange smell emanating from inside your home recently? The culprit isn’t the garbage you forgot to take out last night; it’s probably a stink bug.
Harvard/MIT Scientists Invent Light Sabers…Basically.
Attention, Star Wars fans. Scientists from Harvard and MIT have created a new form of matter that they are comparing to light sabers.
A Matter of Taste
In the back of Super 88, the Asian market near my apartment, lay rows of wide-eyed fish packed in ice. I pass up the colossal catfish…
Waste Not, Want Not
In Massachusetts alone, 700,000 people don’t know where their next meal is coming from. Meanwhile, 40 percent of the food produced in the U.S. is thrown…
Cassie Writes Science 