Photo: A close-up on Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy

How the Legal Opium Market Shaped Global Trade—and Led to an Opioid Crisis

BU historian Benjamin R. Siegel’s Markets of Pain charts opium from a commodity in colonial India to fuel for a drug crisis in modern-day America

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Photo: Scanning electron microscopic images of presolar silicon carbide grains extracted from the Murchison meteorite, which landed in Australia in 1969. Images courtesy of Nan Liu%20
Astrophysics

Tiny Flecks of Ancient Stardust Offer Clues to Solar System Origins

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Video: BU’s Values Told Through Voices from History

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Visual Arts

Gallery: Peri Schwartz (CFA’73)