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Building a memory palace: World’s top memory athletes to compete May 2-3
https://youtu.be/eEL7LRHxBswA taste of the action from the 2014 Extreme Memory Tournament Two dozen of the world’s best memory athletes will compete this weekend at the 2nd Annual Extreme Memory...
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As the river rises: Cahokia’s emergence and decline linked to Mississippi...
David Kilper/WUSTL PhotosA diorama illustrating the late prehistoric Mississippian culture at Cahokia Mounds, a World Heritage site across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. New research suggests...
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Rare dune plants thrive on disturbance
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Carrot or stick? Punishments may guide behavior more effectively than rewards
Photo Illustration by Sara DickherberWhich is more effective — the carrot or the stick? Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have devised a simple experiment to test the effects of rewards...
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I-CARES announces 2015 funded research projects
The International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability (I-CARES) at Washington University in St. Louis has announced the winners from its 2015 call for proposals.I-CARES supports a...
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Coming soon: First encounter with a new class of worlds
JHUAPL/SwRI/NASA The sun shines wanly through Pluto’s thin atmosphere, illuminating its mysterious layered ices. Since the New Horizons probe to Pluto was launched, scientists have come to understand...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nRSK8Vwwx0 There’s a small room in Rudolph Hall that most students walk right past without noticing. But when anyone finds it, they usually insist all their friends...
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IdealTap takes $25,000 prize in 2015 Discovery Competition
Burkhardt (left) and Meiners of the IdealTap team demonstrate their prototype for Discovery Competition judges April 24.IdealTap, a medical device that would make spinal taps easier and more...
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Massively parallel biology students
Mary Butkus/WUSTL PhotosGEP staff member Wilson Leung (far left) working with junior Sarah Swiezy to find motifs that regulate gene expression or silencing by comparing the DNA of different fruit fly...
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Device developed at Washington University may allow sensations in prosthetic...
Researchers have developed a novel device that may allow individuals to feel hot, cold and the sense of touch through a prosthetic device.To the nearly 2 million people in the United States living...
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Spirit of St. Louis on Mars
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ.A false color image of the Martian crater the Opportunity rover is now exploring, which has been named Spirit of St. Louis to recognize the discovery...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phg3847wZQU “You can only do so much in the classroom, so much with movies, slides, discussion and research,” said Ray Arvidson, PhD, the James S. McDonnell...
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WashU seismologist who loves disaster movies reviews 'San Andreas'
New Line CinemaThe fault as imagined by Hollywood Washington University postdoc Aubreya Adams, PhD, an earthquake seismologist who has traveled to every continent and has installed seismometers to...
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Do cheaters have an evolutionary advantage?
Anyone who has crawled along in the left lane while other drivers raced up the right lane, which was clearly marked “lane ends, merge left,” has experienced social cheating, a maddening and fascinating...
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Pre-lecture diagrams help students take better notes, learn more
ShutterstockLecture-based learning can be challenging for students who have difficulty building mental models for the organization of new information, but providing diagrams and other supporting...
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Europa, here we come
NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SETI INSTITUTE On May 26, 2015, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that nine scientific instruments had been selected for a mission to Jupiter’s moon...
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Two companies with Washington University ties among 2015 Arch Grant recipients
One purifies the air you breathe; the other promises to find you the perfect, albeit virtual, girlfriend. Two vastly different but innovative business startups with direct ties to Washington University...
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Functioning brain follows famous sand pile model
Does the brain respond to input the same way a sand pile responds to the addition of more sand? One of the deep problems in understanding the brain is to understand how relatively simple computing...
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Rough guide to Pluto-watching with Bill McKinnon
James Byard/WUSTL PhotosYour host for the Pluto watching party, Bill McKinnon, who will be commenting via email and Skype from Maryland. When New Horizons was launched in 2001, Pluto was still called a...
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Major Midwest flood risk underestimated by as much as five feet, study finds
Wikipedia / Creative CommonsFlood waters inundated parts of Jefferson City, Missouri, and threatened the Missouri State Capitol during the "Great Flood of 1993."As floodwaters surge along major rivers...
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