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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.

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.

Experts explain how vibration-based therapies reduce stress, anxiety, and other ailments.

The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could affect the unparalleled observatory

Convection processes beneath Venus’ scorched surface may help explain the planet’s many volcanoes, a new study reports.

Take allergy medicine a few weeks before pollen counts rise to get ahead of the congestion, sneezing and runny nose, experts say

The crust of volcanically active Venus could be churning with convection currents just like the Earth’s mantle.

To improve detection and monitoring, Rajan Chakrabarty and colleagues at Washington University in St. Louis have created a capacitive biosensor capable of continuously detecting H5N1 in the air.

Our lives are surprisingly dependent upon this extremely light and unreactive gas, yet supplies of it are remarkably fragile.

The decades-long mystery of a never-ending explosion of X-rays around the remains of a dead star may have finally been solved.