Washington University in St. Louis
An experimental drug shows promise in lowering the risk of Alzheimer’s dementia
Clinical trial of people destined to develop early-onset Alzheimer’s disease shows eliminating amyloid from brain.
Researchers mapped individual brain dynamics
Method to create precision brain models with applications to personalized medicine.
Largest ice shelf in Antarctica moves once or twice a day
Ice stream activity triggers sudden displacement of Ross Ice Shelf.
Unveiling Earth’s past through 2.5 billion-year-old Pacific rock samples
Pacific rock samples offer a glimpse of an active Earth 2.5 billion years ago.
Neutron star mergers: New physics signals
With implications for determining the true nature of dark matter.
Finding Love? Don’t forget to seek purpose too
New study suggests sense of purpose can make you more attractive
Blowing snow’s impact on Arctic climate change
Arctic warming caused by sea salt aerosols from blowing snow.
A simple inkjet printer can fabricate stretchable LED
A pen stroke can turn perovskite into a light emitter and detector.
Fighting loneliness: how to find purpose and overcome it
Does a sense of purpose protect against Loneliness?
Artificial intelligence could revolutionize baseball
AI could boost the effectiveness of average and below-average major league pitchers.
A new imaging technology may reduce surgeries for rectal cancer patients
This technology will directly reduce the number of unnecessary surgeries for rectal cancer.
Cancer cells penetrate deeply into their environment
Cancer cells have extraordinary abilities that healthy cells do not.
Earlier crop plants were easier to “tame”
Crop progenitors show remarkable variability in critical features affected by domestication.
A ‘comprehensive’ map of volcanoes on Venus
Most comprehensive map of all volcanic edifices on Venus ever compiled.
New insight into one of the universe’s primordial reactions
Novel particle detector is used to study alternate paths to carbon creation in stars.
New antibiotic candidate from rare soil microbe
This approach allowed scientists to identify an unusual peptide for future drug design efforts.
Imbalanced forces in the Earth-moon-sun system drive circulation of the whole mantle
Tug of sun, the moon could be driving plate motions on ‘imbalanced’ Earth.
Heat conduction plays a vital role in droplet dynamics
Action is important in repelling water from windshields, airplane wings.
Study discovered how asthma may reduce the risk of brain tumors
Mouse study IDs immune cells as link points to potential therapeutic approaches.
The age of moon rocks is close to 1.97 billion years old
Scientists share analysis of the first fresh samples from the moon in more than 40 years.
COVID-19 long-haulers are at an increased risk of developing kidney damage
Attention to kidneys important part of post-COVID-19 care.
Building synthetic muscle using a synthetic chemistry approach
No animals are required to produce these fibers, which are tougher than Kevlar.
Neurons in the visual cortex change their responses over time
Neurons in the visual cortex of the brain ‘drift’ over time.
Good cholesterol may prevent liver inflammation
A study in mice, human blood samples, suggests HDL from the intestine may prevent liver inflammation.
SARS-CoV-2 can find alternate route to infect cells
COVID-19 drugs, vaccines still effective against mutating viruses.
