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Private research university in St. Louis whose McKelvey School of Engineering and science faculty conduct materials, genomics, and planetary research.
WashU researchers report in Science Advances that salt makes the clock protein TIC gather into droplets in the cell nucleus. The authors suggest TIC could become a target for breeding or gene editing in crops.
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A Washington University study found 29.8% of domains cited in Google AI Overviews never appear on the first results page. Ranking well does not predict citation, and only 41.9% of overviews were fully grounded, per a dev.to summary.
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Lan Yang's Washington University team built an optical sensor that detects flowing particles by the sound they emit when a laser pulse heats them. Moving detection off the surface tackles a main reason such ultrasensitive sensors miss rare targets in dilute samples.
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Washington University and LSE researchers found the rich-poor gap in resisting misinformation widest among weak readers across 232,901 teens tested by PISA. The finding supports their case for teaching reading to poorer students, though a single 2022 snapshot cannot show that more instruction would close the gap.
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UT Dallas and Harvard physicists report in Nature a twisted superlattice in uranium oxytelluride, a compound known since the 1960s. Its mix of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic traits might one day help memory devices, if those advantages can be harnessed.
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Washington University researchers found dopamine raised locusts' brain and feeding responses to odors while octopamine lowered them. Brain chemistry alone set how strongly the insects answered an unchanged smell, with the experimenters supplying the chemicals.
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Ben Mansfeld's team built a Southern crabapple reference genome and sequenced over 150 wild samples, finding 242 DNA regions linked to local climate. The links are to where each tree grew, so the regions are hardiness candidates that still have to be tested in living trees.
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WashU researchers checked 98,020 claims in Google AI Overviews and found only 41.9% of overviews fully backed by the pages they cited. Most single claims held up, but at about 13 claims per answer, the citations cannot vouch for a whole overview.
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A Washington University team put lignin in place of half the PAN in a carbon fiber precursor and reports a 25 percent cost cut. That figure sits exactly on the ceiling of what halving PAN can deliver.
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Mercury's lumpiest terrain carries the fewest shrinkage wrinkles, which the authors read as impact debris burying the record. Correct for that and total contraction rises to as much as 23 km, with the thermal models still to be redone.
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Two WashU groups arrive at the same point from opposite ends: the prediction step works, and the corpus of machine-readable synthesis recipes it needs is still being assembled.
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Projects that declared environmental commitments were 13.2% more likely to be funded, and the extra backers came disproportionately from states that report worrying about climate change.
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