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Richards pushes for privacy reform during Senate committee hearing appearance
Neil Richards, the Koch Distinguished Professor in the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, addressed a Dec. 9 hearing of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation,...
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Powerful electrical events quickly alter surface chemistry on Mars and other...
Thinking like Earthlings may have caused scientists to overlook the electrochemical effects of Martian dust storms. On Earth, dust particles are viewed mainly in terms of their physical effects, like...
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COVID-19 patients at higher risk of death, health problems than those with flu
Almost a year ago, COVID-19 began its global rampage, going on to infect about 69.5 million people and kill about 1.6 million as of early this month. From the beginning, most scientists have said that...
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Bayly named inaugural Lee Hunter Distinguished Professor
Philip V. Bayly, an innovative researcher of waves and oscillations in the mechanics of cells and biological tissues, has been named the inaugural Lee Hunter Distinguished Professor in the McKelvey...
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China probe returns with ‘treasure trove’ of moon rocks
The Chinese space agency announced Dec. 16 the return of a lunar probe bringing back the first fresh samples of rock and debris from the moon in more than 40 years. Jolliff Bradley L. Jolliff, the...
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Protein involved in removing Alzheimer’s buildup linked to circadian rhythm
Immune cells known as microglia (turquoise with red dots) surround a plaque of the Alzheimer’s protein amyloid (blue). The red dots indicate that the microglia are prepared to remove the potentially...
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Seeking to avoid ‘full lockdown,’ cells monitor ribosome collisions
Ribosomes are the machines in the cell that use instructions from mRNA to synthesize functional proteins. There are hundreds of thousands of ribosomes in each cell, and they mostly process their...
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Class Acts: Dani Wilder
Remote learning is hard. Especially for children. Even more so for children with a disability. “It’s too much to ask a child with an ADHD diagnosis to look at a screen for six hours and not get up,”...
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Historic, hopeful moment arrives on Medical Campus
As part of a historic effort to end the COVID-19 pandemic, health-care personnel at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and BJC HealthCare have begun receiving the first doses of a...
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We need economic rescue, and we need it now
After months of failed negotiations that left many Americans, businesses and a further weakening economy in the lurch, lawmakers are scrambling the week before Christmas 2020 to reach a deal on an...
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‘The Autonomous Future of Mobility’
Noel Mahaffey, “Night—Times Square,” from the portfolio “City-Scapes,” 1979. Screen print. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. A van gleams darkly in the seedy neon of 1970s Times Square. Taxis queue for...
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Researchers to work with parents, teachers on COVID-19 testing communications
Researchers at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis are conducting discussion groups with parents and staff in the Special School District of St. Louis County (SSD) to develop...
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Aid package will only postpone inevitable housing crisis
As part of the new $900 billion federal stimulus package, the moratorium on evictions for renters will be extended by one month, through the end of January. The help could not come soon enough, said an...
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Modeling can help balance economy, health during pandemic
This summer, when bars and restaurants and stores began to reopen across the United States, people headed out despite the continuing threat of COVID-19. As a result, many areas, including the St. Louis...
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How will we remember this holiday season?
Henry L. Roediger, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences and James Wertsch, David R. Francis Distinguished Professor in the Department of...
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Common brain malformation traced to its genetic roots
About one in 100 children has a common brain disorder called Chiari 1 malformation, but most of the time such children grow up normally and no one suspects a problem. But in about one in 10 of those...
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For moms, oxygen during childbirth often unnecessary
Babies who suffer oxygen deficiencies during birth are at risk of brain damage that can lead to developmental delays, cerebral palsy and even death. To prevent this, most women in labor undergo...
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It wasn’t all bad: new research, relationships marked 2020
Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln? Indeed, to celebrate 2020 seems absurd, even wrong — and yet, perhaps necessary. In 2020, members of the Washington University in St. Louis community...
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Orange is the new ‘block’
Photosynthetic organisms tap light for fuel, but sometimes there’s too much of a good thing. New research from Washington University in St. Louis reveals the core structure of the light-harvesting...
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Mob at Capital building amounts to insurrection
When a group violently attacks a government institution in an effort to change the lawful governmental order, it is insurrection, says an expert on the U.S. Constitution at Washington University in St....
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