Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are developing a new approach to build hetero-integrated photonic chips ...

Washington University in St. Louis will assess its partnerships, teaching, research and service to the community in a quest ...

WashU Leadership Week, hosted by the Bauer Leaders Academy, offers workshops and panel discussions for students, faculty and ...

WashU McKelvey Engineering’s Lan Yang and her team have developed a new sensing technique to detect nanoparticles.

WashU Medicine researchers show in a new study that brain cells called astrocytes modulate the supply of cholesterol in the ...

Students with stronger reading skills are better able to spot misinformation online — and those skills may be especially important for teenagers from disadvantaged backgrounds, according to a new ...

A student works at a laptop under a Japanese flowering crabapple tree outside Olin Library on the WashU Danforth Campus. America’s species of wild crabapples have provided useful genetic data for ...

Book bans erase more than stories. They can erase histories and threaten students' identities, says the Brown School's Sheretta Butler-Barnes.

Over the past two decades, digital technology has reshaped how violence is experienced and perpetrated. Social media, smartphones and other digital tools allow harassment, coercion, exploitation and ...

Researchers plan to use a NASA grant to fine-tune a tool that will be trained to understand how weather and atmospheric conditions evolve over time. (Photo: iStock) As national electricity needs grow, ...

When you’re awake, all your brain’s functions gradually deteriorate. Sleep somehow restores them and may hold the key to understanding how brains operate. “Sleep is one of the great mysteries in ...

Researchers at WashU Medicine kept harmful immune cells out of the brains of mice with Alzheimer’s-like damage by blocking the pathway the cells use to find their way in. The drug they tested, ...