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Super-Tiger Backgrounder: The Case of the Cosmic Rays
NASA, ESA, & F. Paresce (INAF-IASF), R. O'Connell (U. Virginia), & the HST WFC3 Science Oversight CommitteeCosmic rays are thought to originate in nests of massive stars called OB associations,...
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Foundational concept of ecology tested by experiment
Travis Mohrman/Tyson Research CenterMale blue dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis), is one of about 10 dragonfly species commonly seen buzzing the artificial pond systems at the Tyson Research Center,...
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Super-Tiger Backgrounder: The Case of the Cosmic Rays
NASA, ESA, & F. Paresce (INAF-IASF), R. O'Connell (U. Virginia), & the HST WFC3 Science Oversight CommitteeCosmic rays are thought to originate in nests of massive stars called OB associations,...
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Scientific American:Why America's kids need new standards for science education
On Jan. 8, the public got a first look at the newest draft of the Next Generation Science Standards, which lay out ambitious expectations for what elementary, middle and high school students should...
View ArticleDiscovery Competition narrows teams to six
Washington University’s School of Engineering & Applied Science has selected six semifinalists to receive a $1,000 interim funding award and to go on to compete for a $25,000 grand prize. The...
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Super-TIGER going for a record!!!
The Super-TIGER team informed us this morning that Super-TIGER, the WUSTL-led cosmic ray experiment, has been given the green light for a third circuit around Antarctica. "If the balloon stays up for...
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Cheating — and getting away with it
Alexander WildA slice through a culture plates shows slugs (clumps) of the social amoebae D. discoideum (at left) on their way to becoming fruiting bodies (right). The photograph was shot in the lab of...
View ArticleEmbedding with startups to study entrepreneurship
Washington University’s business, engineering and law schools are collaborating on a new course in 2013 that will embed students in the center of the thriving entrepreneur community in downtown St....
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Global plant diversity still hinges on local battles against invasives, study...
Jessica PowellKristin Powell measuring out a study plot of invasive flax lilies in Highlands Hammock State Park in Florida. Created in 1935 Highlands Hammock is one of the first state parks to be...
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Super-TIGER shatters scientific balloon record in Antarctica
We’re number 1. That’s John E. Ward, Ryan Murphy, Thomas Hams and Sean Fitzsimmons, part of the skeletal team still in Antarctica as the Southern Hemisphere winter approaches. Before he left for...
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Genes provide clues to gender disparity in human hearts
Healthy men and women show little difference in their hearts, except for small electrocardiographic disparities. But new genetic differences found by Washington University in St. Louis researchers in...
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Hydrogeologist questions reservoir releases and blasting rock to deepen the...
The Mississippi at St. Louis as mapped by then-lieutenant R.E. Lee of the Corps of Engineers in 1837. The modern Mississippi river channel (blue) overlaid on R.E. Lee's map. Bloody Island no longer...
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New professorship emphasizes commitment to STEM education and honors a...
Washington University Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, PhD, has announced that Regina F. Frey, PhD, associate professor of STEM education in the Department of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences and executive...
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Archaic Native Americans built massive Louisiana mound in less than 90 days,...
Nominated early this year for recognition on the UNESCO World Heritage List, which includes such famous cultural sites as the Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu and Stonehenge, the earthen works at Poverty Point,...
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Engineering's Shen receives CAREER Award from NSF
Jung-Tsung Shen, PhD, assistant professor of electrical & systems engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis, has won a prestigious Faculty...
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Building engineers of the future
Every Tuesday afternoon, a Washington University Engineering undergraduate student goes back to middle school. Nick Okafor leads the after-school Young Engineers Club at Brittany Woods Middle School in...
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Super-TIGER lying low for the Southern Hemisphere winter
The triangle marks the spot. A satellite image taken before Super-TIGER landed shows it came down in a relatively flat area covered by gently rolling sastrugi (snow drifts). The Super-TIGER...
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A WUSTL undergraduate may have written that Wikipedia article you’re reading
Joan Strassmann’s class taking a break from pounding the keys. They fixed the Wikipedia entry on behavioral ecology in a blitz of edits during the class held Dec. 6, 2012. Strassmann is standing to the...
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MySci Resource Center opens Feb. 18 (VIDEO)
Sid HastingsThe new Institute for School Partnership MySci Resource Center will serve as the nerve center of WUSTL’s signature effort to improve teaching and learning within the K-12 education...
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Tales from the Field: Maintaining seismic stations at the South Pole
Aubreya AdamsDecember 16, 2012. Me (Aubreya) in the ice tunnels below Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica. The tunnels are COLD! Like caves in the rest of the world, they maintain the average...
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