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Experiments explain why some liquids are ‘fragile’ and others are ‘strong’
Mehran Moghtadai/GNU Free Documentation LicenseGlass is a liquid that has lost its ability to flow and so instead of taking the shape of its container can itself serve as a container. Only recently has...
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Scientists map the ‘editing marks’ on fly, worm, human genomes
iStock and Creative CommonsD. melanogaster, the fruit fly, (top) has served for more than 100 years as a model for human biology, while the transparent worm C. elegans (bottom) is a comparative...
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Zombie bacteria are nothing to be afraid of
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Vancomycin-resistant enterococcus bacteria dividing. A cell is not a soap bubble that can simply pinch in two to reproduce. The ability to faithfully copy...
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Balloon rise over Fort Sumner
NASAHigh-pressure helium from Kelly trucks carrying gas cylinders rushes through fill tubes extending from the top of a balloon that is pinned to the ground by a spool truck. The rest of the balloon's...
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Engineers develop new sensor to detect tiny individual nanoparticles
Image by J. Zhu, B. Peng, S.K. Ozdemir, L. YangArrays of self-referenced and self-heterodyned Whispering-Gallery Raman microlasers for single nanoparticle detection. A “pump" laser generates a single...
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Quatrano to step down as engineering dean next year
Quatrano Ralph S. Quatrano, PhD, dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis, has announced that he will step down as dean at the end of the academic...
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Aiming for the stars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNUnZJ1gaNIOne night this September, scientists working at the old municipal airport in the desert town of Fort Sumner, N.M., picked up the InFOCuS X-ray telescope with...
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Camera developed at Washington University sheds light on mate choice of...
A video polarimetry image of a large male northern swordtail in false color shows the differences in polarization on its surface.We have all seen a peacock show its extravagant, colorful tail...
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‘The process by which drugs are discovered and developed will be...
Joe Angeles/WUSTL PhotosMichael Kinch, associate vice chancellor and director of the Center for Research Innovation in Business, in front of a blackboard with the chalked logos of startups Washington...
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Japanese film crew talks stardust with physicists
joe angeles/WUSTL PhotosA film crew from NHK, the Japan Broadcasting Corp., visited the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis on Sept. 18 to film for a series called “Cosmic Front...
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Wang receives prestigious NIH BRAIN initiative award
Lihong Wang, PhD, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis, has received a...
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Skandalaris Center to present inaugural Suren G. Dutia and Jas K. Grewal...
Grewal and DutiaThe first recipient of a new award for entrepreneurial impact will be selected from a field of six outstanding finalists at a reception to be held Monday, Oct. 6, at Washington...
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Washington University alum shares Nobel Prize in chemistry
Courtesy photoMoerner with Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton at the School of Engineering's 2013 alumni awards dinner. Washington University in St. Louis alumnus W. E. Moerner, PhD, has been awarded the...
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The dwindling stock of antibiotics, and what to do about it
CDCA CDC microbiologist holds up a plate used to identify resistance in bacteria known as Enterobacteriaceae. Bacteria that are resistant to carbapenems, considered “last resort” antibiotics, produce a...
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Winning by losing: School of Engineering scientists find a way to improve...
Image by J. Zhu, B. Peng, S.K. Ozdemir, L. YangLoss-induced onset of lasing in coupled microresonators. In the upper image, two directly coupled whispering-gallery silica resonators are illustrated...
View ArticleMajor Indo-U.S. Advanced Bioenergy Consortium launches
The government of India's Department of Biotechnology, Indian corporate leaders and Washington University in St. Louis have invested $2.5 million to launch the Indo-US Advanced Bioenergy Consortium for...
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Black holes are topic of 2014 Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lecture
Ramesh Narayan, PhD, the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University, will deliver the seventh annual Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct....
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The right to privacy in a big data world
In the digital age in which we live, monitoring, security breaches and hacks of sensitive data are all too common. It has been argued that privacy has no place in this big data environment and anything...
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Walk through buildings from your own device
Graphic by Brook haley/school of engineering & Applied scienceUsing 3-D computer vision, Furukawa takes users through a high-definition, realistic virtual tour of The Frick Collection in New York...
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Hot on the trail of the Asian tiger mosquito
CDCAedes albopictus, the Asian tiger mosquito, is an aggressive daytime biter and a potential disease vector. Lab studies have shown that two dozen viruses can reproduce in the mosquito, but so far it...
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