JWST’s Next Year of Amazing Science Revealed—As Funding Worries Loom Large
The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could affect the unparalleled observatory
Scientists may have just found the driving force behind Venus’ volcanos
Convection processes beneath Venus’ scorched surface may help explain the planet’s many volcanoes, a new study reports.
How to make your seasonal allergies a little less miserable
Take allergy medicine a few weeks before pollen counts rise to get ahead of the congestion, sneezing and runny nose, experts say
Venus: Could Surprising ‘Missing Mechanism’ Explain Volcanic Mystery?
The crust of volcanically active Venus could be churning with convection currents just like the Earth’s mantle.
Bird flu biosensor detects virus in less than 5 min
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.
The world keeps running out of helium. There is now a race to prepare for the next shortage
Our lives are surprisingly dependent upon this extremely light and unreactive gas, yet supplies of it are remarkably fragile.
A nebula’s X-ray glow may come from a destroyed giant planet
The decades-long mystery of a never-ending explosion of X-rays around the remains of a dead star may have finally been solved.
Trump cuts damage global efforts to track diseases, prevent outbreaks
Disease surveillance programs worldwide are suddenly in limbo
Pioneering Women: Meet one WashU researcher behind the “modern mindfulness movement” at WashU
Dr. Diana Parra Perez is an Assistant Professor at WashU’s Prevention Research Center, from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
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.