An electrolysis system that doesn’t need pure water may change the game when it comes to exploration. When it comes to water and Mars, there’s…
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According to new research from the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, pollution may bear part of the blame for the…
The discovery of a remarkably well-preserved fossil from the extinct human species Paranthropus robustus suggests rapid evolution during a turbulent period of local climate change,…
For a honey bee, few things are more important than recognizing your nestmates. Being able to tell a nestmate from an invader could mean the…
New predictions are tightly connected to how large neutron stars grow and what elements are likely synthesized in neutron star mergers. Credit: NASA In atomic…
Flu season comes around like clockwork every year, and sooner or later everyone gets infected. The annual flu shot is a key part of public…
Calculated trends in geophysical PM2.5 values from 1998-2018. Warm colors indicate positive trends, cool colors indicate negative trends and the opacity of the colors indicates…
A new study published in Science finds that Earth’s water may have come from materials that were present in the inner solar system at the…
Red brick device developed by chemists at Washington University in St. Louis lights up a green light-emitting diode. The photo shows the core-shell architecture of…
How’s the weather on Mars? Tough on rovers, but very good for generating and moving highly reactive chlorine compounds. New research from Washington University in…
(Click the image for full view.) The meteorite is a piece of the surface of asteroid Vesta. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis recently…
(Click image for full view.) Engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis have received federal funding for a rapid…
Curious Marie comes from the Allende meteorite, which fell in northern Mexico in February 1969. The white, fuzzy-looking features in this fragment of Allende are…
Biologist Kenneth M. Olsen tends rice in the Jeanette Goldfarb Plant Growth Facility at Washington University in St. Louis. Credit: Joe Angeles/Washington University A new…
‘Surfing attack’ hacks Siri, Google with ultrasonic waves. Researchers use ultrasound waves vibrating through tables to access cellphones. Ultrasonic waves don’t make a sound, but…
Physicists in Arts & Sciences have proposed a new way to leverage data from large neutrino telescopes such as the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica.…
Study has implications for evolution of technology and culture in humans. Teach a chimpanzee to fish for insects to eat, and you feed her for…
Natalie Mueller grew and calculated yield estimates for two annual plants that were cultivated in eastern North America for thousands of years — and then…
New research challenges traditional idea about relationship between alcohol use and brain size. For years, researchers have observed that alcohol consumption is associated with reduced…