Science & Technology

Douglas Wiens in Arts & Sciences led one of the first seismic studies of the Patagonian Andes, where glaciers are melting at some of the fastest rates on the planet. The team discovered and described a key link between ice mass loss, uplift and a gap between tectonic plates.

Researchers in the lab of Peng Bai at the McKelvey School of Engineering have discovered the key to making a stable, safe battery.

Interdisciplinary research from Washington University in St. Louis has uncovered a pattern in the tics associated with Tourette syndrome.

Rita Parai, assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, will use a National Science Foundation CAREER award to leverage new techniques to measure heavy noble gases in ocean island basalts from the Azores archipelago.

WashU’s Hong Chen and her team have developed a method for producing a low-cost, easy-to-use focused ultrasound device that can help open up the blood-brain barrier for non-invasive procedures and diagnostics.

Three faculty members and one alumna of the McKelvey School of Engineering have been named fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

The McKelvey School of Engineering is launching a cybersecurity leadership certificate program. The first cohort will begin in April.

A new imaging technology from the lab of Matthew Lew at the McKelvey School of Engineering uses polarized “optical vortices” to provide a detailed, dynamic view of molecules in motion.

Bugs. We squish ’em, smash ’em, fear ’em, scare ’em, spray ’em, sweep ’em, flick ’em and generally misunderstand them. But perhaps it’s time we rethink our relationship to our tiny, multi-legged invertebrate friends who have been around since long before we humans got here — and will be here long after we’re gone. Insects […]

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