Science and Technology
- Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
- Bharat Operating System Solutions, GNU/Linux distribution developed by NRCFOSS/C-DAC, India
- Big Occultable Steerable Satellite, a system for observing distant planets
- BOSS (molecular mechanics) (Biochemical and Organic Simulation System), a molecular modeling program
- Yahoo! Search BOSS, a web services platform initiative
- Bride of sevenless, a promoter for the sevenless gene
- Boss (crater), a lunar crater
- Boss (engineering), an engineering term for a protrusion type feature
- "Boss", nickname of the robot that won the 2007 DARPA Grand Challenge
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