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New technology focuses diffuse light inside living tissue
Lihong Wang, PhD, continues to build on his groundbreaking technology that allows light deep inside living tissue during imaging and therapy. Wang In the Jan. 5 issue of Nature Communications, Wang,...
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How bacteria control their size
CDCMethicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, are so uniform in size they look like they were made in a factory. How do the bacteria manage to keep their size so uniform? Scientists have...
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Surprised by math
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDMBDFQQCzcA young boy sits on the carpet, his feet disappearing into a puddle of cloth — actually a giant pair of sweatpants he put on over his own clothes before...
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Achilefu receives prestigious St. Louis Award
Robert BostonWashington University Chancellor Emeritus William H. Danforth (left) visits with Samuel Achilefu, PhD, after Achilefu received the St. Louis Award on Wednesday, Jan. 14, on the Medical...
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Peat fire emissions may shed light on climate change
ChakrabartyWildfires, which send hot flames and smoke high into the air, create black carbon emissions associated with climate change and risk to human health. Carbon emissions from wildfires in the...
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Nanotechnology changes behavior of materials, new research finds
ThimsenOne of the reasons solar cells are not used more widely is cost — the materials used to make them most efficient are expensive. Engineers are exploring ways to print solar cells from inks, but...
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To speed up magma, add water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekiheqVpJuU&feature=youtu.beThe team aboard the research vessel Kilo Moana retrieves an ocean-bottom seismograph that has floated to the surface after receiving a...
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Washington University part of group awarded $20 million for climate...
Mikhail BerezinIn visible light, a leaf from a plant living in normal weather conditions (above left) and one from a plant suffering from drought (above right) look very similar. But a scanner for...
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Friends know how long you'll live, study finds
Wikimedia CommonsYoung lovers walking down the aisle may dream of long and healthy lives together, but close friends in the wedding party may have a better sense of whether those wishes will come true,...
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And the Olin Cup goes to ...
Mary Butkus/WUSTL PhotoDave Sutter (left) and Casey Lawlor, members of the winning team from Love Will Inc., pose with the Olin Cup.The top prize in the 2015 Olin Cup competition was awarded to Love...
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Cyanobacterium found in algae collection holds promise for biotech applications
Cyanobacteria, bacteria that obtain their energy through photosynthesis, are of considerable interest as bio-factories, organisms that could be harnessed to generate a range of industrially useful...
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To speed up magma, add water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekiheqVpJuU&feature=youtu.beThe team aboard the research vessel Kilo Moana retrieves an ocean-bottom seismograph that has floated to the surface after receiving a...
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Innovation-friendly Quick Start License now available
James Byard/WUSTL PhotosThe Office of Technology Management, located in the new @4240 building in the heart of St. Louis' Cortex bioscience district, launched the Quick Start License to speed up and...
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Understanding how connections rewire after spinal cord injury
Mouse stem cells differentiated into spinal V2a interneuron enriched cultures (red = neuronal cells, blue = cell nuclei, green = V2a interneurons) to study their role in rewiring.Restoring function...
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Stressed bees die sooner, leading to abrupt collapse of colonies
An international team of scientists believe they may have worked out why bee colonies collapse rather than decline. Their findings appear in the Feb. 10 issue of PNAS. Colony collapse disorder has...
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In the quantum world, the future affects the past
We’re so used to murder mysteries that we don’t even notice how mystery authors play with time. Typically the murder occurs well before the midpoint of the book, but there is an information blackout...
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Forty-year-old Apollo 17 samples help date lunar impacts
Brad JolliffDetermining the ages of different melt components in a complex rock such as this impact melt breccia collected by the Apollo 17 astronauts requires carefully focused analyses. Analayzing...
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Making teeth tough: Beavers show way to improve our enamel
The presence of an iron-rich coating gives a beaver's teeth a reddish-brown color. Researchers are studying the pigmented material to learn how it protects the tooth enamel.Beavers don’t brush their...
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'Flicker: Your Brain on Movies'
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Murch wins Sloan Research Fellowship
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced Feb. 23 that Kater Murch, PhD, assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been awarded a 2015 Sloan...
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