Washington University joins U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center
Washington University in St. Louis has joined an international group of researchers working to make great strides in advanced coal technologies. The university is now part of the U.S.-China Clean...
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Cat domestication traced to Chinese farmers 5,300 years ago
Wikipedia CommonsThe Near Eastern Wildcat, native to Western Asia and Africa, is believed to be the primary ancestor of all domestic cats now living around the globe. Five-thousand years before it was...
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George named chair of Department of Biomedical Engineering
Steven C. George, MD, PhD, has been named chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, effective July 1, 2014. George George is professor of biomedical...
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Odor receptors discovered in lungs
Your nose is not the only organ in your body that can sense cigarette smoke wafting through the air. Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Iowa have shown that your...
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Staying ahead of Huntington’s disease
Photo: MacDonald et al., (2003) Neuromolecular Med. 4: 7-20In the figure above, the open circles are data for individual patients with Huntington's disease, and the solid circles are averages for a...
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Elephant shark genome decoded
Byrappa VenkateshByrappa Venkatesh, PhD, holds an elephant shark, one of the world's oldest-living jawed vertebrates. Sequencing its genome offers new clues to why the skeleton of this fish is made of...
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Wang receives honorary doctorate from Lund University
WangLihong Wang, PhD, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University in Sweden. Wang, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has...
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WUSTL engineers provide free code to help build better batteries
Lithium-ion batteries, such as those used in electric vehicles, are in high demand, with a global market value expected to reach $33.1 billion in 2019. But their high price and short life need to be...
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Microbes buy low and sell high
Tracy Collins/WUSTL Creative Services The idea that people make calculated decisions that allow them to obtain the most goods with the smallest amount of effort — a complex hypothesis called ‘economic...
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Unwanted side effect becomes advantage in photoacoustic imaging
The images above show melanoma cells (top) and rose petal epidermal cells (bottom) using conventional photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) (left) and photo imprint photoacoustic microscopy. The resolution is...
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Washington University to sponsor Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls -- the...
Women are underrepresented in the important fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) — minority women even more so. To help close the gender gap and to prepare more students for...
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Happy 10th anniversary Opportunity!
Randy KorotevRay Arvidson, deputy principal investigator of the MER mission, celebrates the Opportunity rover's 10th anniversary on Mars, which coincides with his 40th anniversary at Washington...
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Institute for School Partnership’s Darwin Day celebration to highlight...
Charles Darwin was the originator of the biological theory of evolution. Teaching biology without evolution, David Kirk said, is like teaching chemistry without atomic theory or physics without the...
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Daydreaming about summer excursions?
Midway through "Missouri River Country," there is a satellite map that shows how dense development in St. Charles County runs into the Busch and Weldon Springs conservation areas and abruptly stops....
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NASA's Opportunity at 10: new findings from old rover
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell univ./arizona State univ.Opportunity Mars Rover's self portrait in January 2014, just before completing a decade of work on Mars. The rover's panoramic camera took the images...
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Strassmann installed as Charles Rebstock Professor of Biology
Sid Hastings/WUSTL PhotosJoan E. Strassmann speaks at her installation as the Charles Rebstock Professor of Biology in Arts & Sciences. She wears the medallion bestowed by Chancellor Mark S....
View ArticleInterdisciplinary Environmental Clinic files amicus brief in U.S. Supreme Court
Students and faculty in the Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic (IEC) at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis have filed an amicus briefon behalf of air pollution scientists in an...
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Academy of Science of St. Louis honors four WUSTL researchers
Four Washington University in St. Louis researchers are being honored as outstanding scientists by the Academy of Science of St. Louis.Each year, the academy seeks nominations of outstanding women and...
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Students win top prize in GlobalHack competition
Photo courtesy of Techli.comMembers of “The Force” accept the $50,000 prize from Jim Eberlin, CEO of TopOpps, for winning the GlobalHack event Feb. 2 at Union Station in St. Louis.Seven current and...
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Skemer will use NSF CAREER award to understand rock flow in Earth's mantle
Skemer at Siccar Point, one of the most famous sites in the history of geology. He is sitting on what is called an angular unconformity, where horizontally oriented strata abut vertically oriented...
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