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Nicola Aravecchia, an archaeologist at WashU, is featured in this New York Times piece about research at one of the world’s oldest Christian churches.

Scientists, including archaeology professor Michael Frachetti, have gained new insight into the Silk Road through the discovery of two abandoned cities.

Unlike other birds, parrots produce their own pigments—but scientists never fully understood the underlying mechanisms, until now.

Joe Corbo, a biologist at WashU, comments on the brilliance of birds’ colors.

The research of Scott Handley, a microbiologist at WashU, is featured in this Nature article.

An international team of archaeologists, led by Michael Frachetti, Professor of Archaeology at WashU, and Farhod Maksudov conducted the research that brought this ancient city to light.

In this piece, evolutionary biologist Jonathan Losos at WashU comments on the abilities of dogs and cats.

Elizabeth Carlen, Living Earth Collaborative Postdoctoral Fellow, co-authors this article about human biases toward animals based on color.

Dr. Theresa Gildner, an assistant professor of biological anthropology, says that Helicobacter pylori, a common bacterium that some residents have tested positive for, can cause painful gut inflammation, ulcers, and even certain stomach cancers.

The discovery was led by Mr Maksudov and Michael Frachetti, an archaeologist at WashU, and made possible with drones and a remote-sensing tool known as lidar, which uses reflected light to create three-dimensional mappings of the environment.