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Food insecurity threatens billions, and the solution may lie in a plant cultivation technique far more efficient than nature.

The discovery by Michael Frachetti and others suggests that trade routes along the Silk Road were far more complex than previously understood.

The Jay Turner Group, an energy, environmental, and chemical engineering lab at WashU, installed QuantAQ monitors: low-cost sensors that track particulate matter, which comes from car exhaust, fossil-fuel power plants, construction dust, industrial activity and other sources.

Dr. Will Ross, associate dean for diversity at WashU School of Medicine and professor of medicine in the Nephrology Division serves as vice chair of the Commission.

Steven Van Dyken, an immunologist at the WashU School of Medicine, has been studying an immune response usually triggered in response to allergens and parasites, to see whether it could help to regulate metabolism.

William McKinnon, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and a member of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences at WashU, joins Megan Lynch following the successful launch of the Europa Clipper. The mission will study a moon of Jupiter.

The mission will tackle one of biology’s core questions: Can life exist anywhere else in our solar system? Paul Byrne, a planetary scientist at WashU and author on papers on Europa, is featured.

WashU and Saint. Louis University (SLU) both have conducted research into ways that autonomous vehicles could be implemented into an urban environment. WashU has built a 1/8th scale “mini-city” that includes a driverless car.

Patty Heyda, professor of architecture at WashU, is featured.

WashU researchers are exploring underwater caves to gain new insights into the early human migration to Sicily, the largest Mediterranean island.