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Surprising phosphate finding in asteroid sample
The spacecraft from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) mission traveled to near-Earth asteroid Bennu and collected a sample...
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Moon ‘swirls’ could be magnetized by unseen magmas
Lunar swirls are light-colored, sinuous features on the Moon’s surface, bright enough to be visible from a backyard telescope. Some people think they look like the brushstrokes in an abstract...
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Eleven alumni earn Fulbright awards
Eleven recent alumni of Washington University in St. Louis earned Fulbright awards to travel abroad to teach English or to conduct research in the 2024-25 academic year. The program recognizes...
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Minnis wins Paley Center internship
Kannon Minnis, a rising junior in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won a prestigious Peter Roth Internship from the Paley Center for Media in New York. Minnis (Courtesy...
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Early, Losos elected members of American Philosophical Society
Gerald Early, the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, and Jonathan B. Losos, the William H. Danforth Distinguished University...
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WashU Expert: What’s at stake in Biden’s gamble
With just a little over four months until Election Day, President Joe Biden is facing increasing demands from prominent Democratic politicians, voters and media outlets to drop out of the race...
View ArticleResearchers find biological clues to mental health impacts of prenatal...
Scientists are trying to understand how cannabis may affect long-term neurodevelopment when people were exposed to it in the womb. Previous work by Washington University in St. Louis researchers Sarah...
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XL-Calibur telescope launched to study black holes
Scientists from Washington University in St. Louis have launched a balloon-borne telescope to unlock the secrets of astrophysical black holes and neutron stars, some of the most extreme objects in the...
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Archaeologists report earliest evidence for plant farming in east Africa
A trove of ancient plant remains excavated in Kenya helps explain the history of plant farming in equatorial eastern Africa, a region long thought to be important for early farming but where scant...
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Vanyo awarded protein research training
Vanyo Vincent Vanyo, a PhD student in plant and microbial biosciences in the Roy and Diana Vagelos Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, was selected to...
View ArticleBuilding ‘time-traveling’ quantum sensors
The idea of time travel has dazzled sci-fi enthusiasts for years. Science tells us that traveling to the future is technically feasible, at least if you’re willing to go near the speed of light, but...
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New study adds to mystery of Cahokia exodus
Nine hundred years ago, the Cahokia Mounds settlement just across the Mississippi River from present-day St. Louis bustled with roughly 50,000 people in the metropolitan area, making it one of the...
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Tikhonov wins NSF CAREER award
Tikhonov Mikhail Tikhonov, an assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, won a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the...
View ArticleA professor’s past life: Richard Chapman
As a first-year student at Washington University in St. Louis, Sanchali Pothuru took an introductory screenwriting course taught by Richard Chapman, a senior lecturer in film and media studies in Arts...
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Cinema St. Louis highlights WashU student filmmakers
“Classroom 230,” a short documentary directed and produced by recent alumna Ava Farrar, profiles Ademir Koric, a Bosnian immigrant and computer science teacher at St. Louis’ Metro Academic and...
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High stress during pregnancy linked to elevated cortisol in toddlers’ hair,...
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and Dartmouth College have discovered a connection between toddler hair cortisol levels — a long-term stress biomarker — and maternal prenatal...
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Chemists develop test to track crucial edits to RNA
Super-resolution microscopy of edited RNA in kidney cells using EndoVIA. (Image: Benoit Arnould) Cells create messages using the language of RNA to translate our genetic code into proteins. Those RNA...
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Daily rhythms depend on receptor density in biological clock
In humans and other animals, signals from a central circadian clock in the brain generate the seasonal and daily rhythms of life. They help the body to prepare for expected changes in the environment...
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Ornamented dragonflies better equipped to survive human threats
(Image: Pexels) A new study in the journal Ecology Letters suggests that “ornamented” dragonfly species are better able to survive habitat destruction and other human threats. “It’s a strong...
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‘Ferguson’ inspired generation of activists, political leaders
The fatal police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager, on Aug. 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo., sent a shockwave through the country. Seemingly overnight, the phrase #BlackLivesMatter became a...
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