Science & Technology

WashU psychology researcher Deanna Barch has won the Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences from the National Academy of Sciences, one of the most prestigious honors in psychology.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are testing for elevated lead levels potentially kicked up in the destructive path of the 2025 tornado.

Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis find evidence that elevated stress exposure and its inflammatory correlates may contribute to Black-white racial disparities in mortality risk.

Ultrasound-guided diffuse optical tomography reduces breast biopsies by 25% in a new study from researchers at Washington University in St. Louis.

Biomedical engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have outlined how properties of biological condensates may serve as engines to power electrochemical reactions at a microscale.

New home construction is a major source of carbon emissions. Over the last three semesters, Hongxi Yin and Sam Fox School students helped develop a pavilion made entirely from salvaged materials. Now on view in Chicago’s Millennium Park, the project sequestered more carbon than it released.

Washington University in St. Louis has been recognized as a Focused Ultrasound Center of Excellence by the Focused Ultrasound Foundation.

The second annual WashU Data Viz competition is now open and accepting submissions until Jan. 25. Students, faculty and staff are invited to participate.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have determined the source of metabolic noise and harnessed it to benefit bioproduction in microbes.

Mozilla AI recently highlighted the PIGuard model developed in the lab of Ning Zhang, a computer scientist at Washington University in St. Louis. The model was among the best at protecting LLMs from prompt injection attacks.