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Using nighttime air chemistry to track ozone impact
It is well known that the dog days of summer in St. Louis are hot, humid and hazy. On the warmest of these days, the air arrives from the south, bringing with it high temperatures, moisture and natural...
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Cause and effect, or effect and cause?
Flick a switch on a dark winter day and your office is flooded with bright light, one of many everyday miracles to which we are all usually oblivious. A physicist would probably describe what is...
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A new route to chaos
Researchers in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered a novel route to encode chaos on light in an optomechanical microresonator system....
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Back to health
Maybe it happened after you hauled a house’s worth of boxes to and from a moving van while helping a friend move. Maybe it startled you after a seemingly innocuous fender bender. Or maybe you noticed...
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Nanoparticles present sustainable way to grow food crops
Scientists are working diligently to prepare for the expected increase in global population — and therefore an increased need for food production— in the coming decades. A team of engineers at...
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Multicultural geology
Missouri, home to Washington University in St. Louis, has many attractions but ready access to unusual geology is not among them. Most of the rock is buried under thick glacial deposits (soil) and,...
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Popping off in our neighborhood
Most of the cosmic rays arriving at Earth from our galaxy come from nearby clusters of massive stars, according to new observations from the Cosmic Ray Isotope Spectrometer (CRIS), an instrument...
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Farming amoebae carry around detoxifying food
Humans aren’t the only farmers out there. Five years ago, the Queller-Strassmann lab at Rice University, now at Washington University in St. Louis, demonstrated that the social amoeba Dictyostelium...
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Are we there yet?
National flags mark the entrance to the 21st Conference of the Nations on climate change in Paris. On Dec. 12, 2015, Cameron Pulley, a graduating senior at Washington University in St. Louis, boarded...
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Trap and neutralize: A new way to clean contaminated groundwater
A team of researchers from Washington University in St. Louis have helped discover a new chemical method to immobilize uranium in contaminated groundwater, which could lead to more precise and...
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Challenging an old idea
Cancer cells are defined by their ability for uncontrolled growth, one cell quickly becoming two becoming many. “It’s a fascinating process,” said Gary Patti, associate professor of chemistry in Arts...
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Survival of the hardest-working
A team of engineers at Washington University in St. Louis discovered a way to improve production of biofuels, pharmaceuticals, materials and other useful chemicals by capitalizing on the work ethic of...
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Better understanding biorhythms
An electrical and systems engineer at Washington University in St. Louis has designed a method that, figuratively, forces a leopard to change its spots. Jr-Shin Li Jr-Shin Li, the Das Family...
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Migratory birds: Hidden in plain sight
“The Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis, as well as the nearby parks, are migrant traps,” said Randy Korotev, a lunar geochemist and, by reputation, one of the university’s most...
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Wearing of the green
Everyone associates the shamrock with St. Patrick’s Day. St. Patrick, Ireland’s patron saint, we all learned at some point, used the plant with the three-lobed leaf to explain the Holy Trinity to his...
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Seventy generations of bacteria
When the first antibiotics became available 70 years ago, they were often described as miracles of human ingenuity, rather like plastics or bright permanent dyes, which were discovered at roughly the...
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Shedding light on the day-night cycle
New research sheds light on how the rhythms of daily life are encoded in the brain. Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have discovered that different groups of...
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Why animals have fur, blubber and big ears
Bird keeping warm in the winter by fluffing up. Body size isn’t the only factor that determines whether an animal can keep warm in the cold. How do birds and mammals maintain near-constant body...
View ArticleThree Questions: Nobel laureate W.E. Moerner
In 1989, alumnus W. E. Moerner, AB ’75, BS ’75, BS ’75, became the first scientist in the world to measure the light absorption of a single molecule, a task long thought to be impossible. Twenty-five...
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Why animals have fur, blubber and big ears
Bird keeping warm in the winter by fluffing up. Body size isn’t the only factor that determines whether an animal can keep warm in the cold. How do birds and mammals maintain near-constant body...
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