Invasive longhorned tick discovery in St. Louis County encourages tick investigations across region
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tickborne diseases are on the rise. That means if you’re outdoors, you need to take precautions.
Cats may have been domesticated much later than we thought — with earlier felines being eaten or made into clothes
Two studies of ancient felines find that cats were likely domesticated in Egypt or other regions in North Africa — and moved into Europe with humans much later than previously believed.
Forgotten indigenous crops could help solve modern climate issues
Children learn about the “three sisters” – corn, beans, and squash – growing together, but that’s only part of the story.
Cats and Dogs Are Weirdly Starting to Look Like Each Other, Thanks to Human Evolution
Cats or dogs? Dogs or cats? Whether you’re a feline fanatic or with the canine crowd, maybe you’ve noticed your cat has an eerie resemblance to a popular purebred pug on social media, or that your dog is starting to look like a lot of Instagram cats.
Convergent ‘Cuteness’ Is Making Dogs and Cats Look Alike
Pugs, Persian cats, and other smushed-face cats and dogs are more similar to one another than they are to the wild animals they evolved from
Our love for ‘baby faces’ reshaped cat and dog evolution
Walk into any pet show and you’ll see them – flat-faced Persian cats with plush coats and round eyes, or pug dogs waddling about with their unmistakably squished faces.
Hot off the press: Wildfire chasers at WashU discover potent climate-warming organic particles
A WashU research team spent 45 days traveling to different wildfire locations in the western United States where they sampled gaseous smoke and aerosol species and analyzed their chemical and optical properties.
Playing games with people’s lives’: Cuts hit Illinois city plagued by sewage
Federal spending cuts have put some Metro East infrastructure projects in a state of uncertainty, including plans to address sewage spilling out of city pipes in Cahokia Heights.
Trump cuts damage global efforts to track diseases, prevent outbreaks
Disease surveillance programs worldwide are suddenly in limbo
STL firm developing commercial avian flu detector
After one of the longest avian flu outbreaks in recent history, researchers at Washington University have created a microwave-sized biosensor that can detect bird flu in dairy farms from a single breath.