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WashU researchers are expanding what photonic chips can do by adding ultrathin crystalline materials as “photonic Legos.”

You might not be able to pronounce their names, but you sure know how they look

Open to the public, the tours spotlight iconic trees, fall colors and campus biodiversity

A remarkable new oak cultivar, now officially named Quercus ×tottenii ‘Sweet Braude ’, has been recognized on the WashU Danforth Campus.

Apple varieties have much to gain from traits found in their wild cousins

From listening to farmers in Benin to training community researchers in Papua New Guinea to connecting planetary health scholars at WashU, Mandeville works to create a healthy planet for populations

Faculty members Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich and Seth Denizen have won the 2026 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize for “Thinking Through Soil: Wastewater Agriculture in the Mezquital Valley.”

As climate change brings more extreme weather events, strengthening families before disasters strike can help protect children’s health and well-being

Earth sciences researchers found evidence that chemosymbiotic relationships between microbes and animals are an ancient evolutionary mechanism.

At the Living Earth Collaborative’s annual Nature City Symposium, three student teams drew on regional expertise to develop new approaches to trees, green space and urban design.