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Food Culture Along the Silk Road

Compared to nomadic communities, Silk Road cities were urban food deserts, study finds.

3.26.18 |

Like passionate foodies who know the best places to eat in every town, Silk Road nomads may have been the gastronomic elites of the Medieval Ages, enjoying diets much more diverse than their sedentary urban counterparts, suggests a new study in Scientific Reports.

3.19.18

Americans prefer economic inequality to playing Robin Hood, study finds

3.19.18 |

Given the chance to play Robin Hood, most Americans show little interest in taking from the rich and giving to the poor. A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences may explain why it’s so hard for voters in modern democracies to erase the economic inequalities that separate most citizens from the nation’s super-wealthy elites.

3.15.18

Making drugs from bugs

3.14.18

‘How We Listen Shapes How We View the World’: The Radio Drama in Post-WWII Germany

3.14.18 |

Caroline Kita explores the role of radio dramas in shaping West Germany’s new democracy after World War II.

3.6.18

New view on electron interactions in graphene

3.6.18 |

There’s a new way to look at how electrons interact with each other in graphene, an intriguing material comprised of a single layer of carbon atoms. Washington University in St. Louis researchers, led by Erik Henriksen, assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, are exploring the quantum electronic properties of graphene using infrared light.

3.5.18

Academy of Science-St. Louis honors three researchers

3.5.18 |

Three researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, Raj Jain, David Kirk and Stuart Kornfeld, are being honored for outstanding contributions to science by the Academy of Science-St. Louis.

3.5.18

NSF Fellowship encourages graduate students to go beyond research

2.28.18

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Food Culture Along the Silk Road

Americans prefer economic inequality to playing Robin Hood, study finds

Making drugs from bugs

‘How We Listen Shapes How We View the World’: The Radio Drama in Post-WWII Germany

New view on electron interactions in graphene

Academy of Science-St. Louis honors three researchers

NSF Fellowship encourages graduate students to go beyond research

The secret lives of plants

Frog love and the decoy effect

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