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As artificial intelligence (AI) plays an increasingly important role in the lives of humans, its learning processes are becoming increasingly obscure. Computer scientist Kate Saenko says that’s a problem.
University Research | Boston UniversityBoston University researchers have developed a self-lubricating condom that could have widespread benefits in preventing sexually transmitted infections and unplanned pregnancies.
University Research | Boston UniversityAfter ten years of studying the brains, researchers believe they have an explanation for why similar levels of head trauma in different people can cause some of them to suffer more drastic symptoms of CTE than others.
Researching the Brain, Seeking Cures | Brain Injury | Boston UniversityBU researchers have developed a tool that will help determine whether a new virus found in animals could cause infectious diseases in humans.
University Research | Boston UniversityA Boston University undergraduate aims to break the hold of super-addictive nicotine, and help smokers quit for good.
Boston University | The voice is mechanical and flat, and anyone offering such banal commentary and sounding so bored would surely bomb in a job interview. But in this case, the observations are impressive. They’re made by what looks like a two-foot-tall stack of hors d’oeuvre trays on wheels, careening around the…
Boston University | Such bolts from the blue (or black) of space rarely wreak such havoc. But less severe irritants—interrupted radio transmissions, disrupted GPS devices, even rusting of pipelines—can result when electric currents course through the magnetic field, says Joshua Semeter, who’d like to know more about…
Boston University | Engineers at Boston University have created a new, experimental device called AcouStar, which is designed to pinpoint tumors so that they can be taken out faster and more accurately.
University Research | Boston UniversityUsing e-cigarettes or 'vaping' has virtually the same negative consequences for wound healing as traditional cigarettes, according to a new study.
University Research | Boston UniversityAcute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM), a rare but incurable disease that has paralyzed at least 116 people in 31 states in 2018, most of them under age 18. Karl Kuban, BU School of Medicine (MED) professor of pediatrics and neurology, answers questions about the disease.
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