Sciences

The Mean Gene: Meet NF1, the most common disorder you've probably never heard of

Slideshow: Kids with NF1 and their families at "Club NF"

Wash. U. Scientists Identify Gene That Causes Rare Respiratory Disease

You probably haven't heard of primary ciliary dyskinesia. It's a genetic disorder that affects only one in 20,000 babies, mostly by causing chronic respiratory problems. What makes it even trickier is that, because it's so rare, and because respiratory problems are caused by a wide range of things, ... More >>

Every Brain is a Critic

Missouri Gets a C in Science Education -- And It's One of the Better Students

​The Thomas B. Fordham Institute for Advancing Educational Excellence just released its comprehensive State of State Science Standards 2012 report, which grades each state on how it teaches science to students, and Missouri ranked in the top twenty. Sadly that's no better than a C grade, as the Fo ... More >>

St. Louis to Get Hotter, Wetter, NRDC Report Says

Floods, like the one that took acres of farmland along the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers this spring, will become even more common, the NRDC warns.​A new report from the National Resources Defense Council predicts all sorts of holy hell triggered by climate change, and St. Louis is ... More >>

Wash. U. Docs Can Tell You What Happened Last Time You Blacked Out

image viaWhere did it go? The researchers at Wash. U. know.​This is a special message for all you folks out there who occasionally drink to excess. A team of researchers at Washington University Medical School has figured out what happened to you last time you blacked out! OK, they can't expl ... More >>

Wash. U. Docs Find Underlying Cause of Ovarian Cancer

image viaThis is ovarian cancer. It ain't pretty.​It's old news that cancer is caused by mutations in otherwise healthy cells. But where are those mutations? That's what the researchers at Washington University's Genome Institute have been trying to figure out. Earlier this year, a team sequen ... More >>

Skyward in Triumph

The Latest in Petri Dish Fashion: Designer Intestinal Bacteria

image viaThere's a high proportion of these intestinal bacteria, Firmicutes, in people who have a high-fat, high-sugar diet.​We all have a vast collection of bacteria in our intestines, a library, if you will. Most of these bacteria are friendly and helpful, allowing us to digest foods we woul ... More >>

Missouri Congressman Wants to Kill Funding for Climate Change

Luetkemeyer: Insert tinfoil hat above.​Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-9th District) is proud of his view that global warming is a myth. So proud, in fact, that last weekend he attached a provision onto a budget bill that would ban the United States from funding the Intergovernmental Panel on Cl ... More >>

Mizzou Scientists Watch Memories Get Made

image viaScans of the brain at work during the Semantic Fluency Test in which research subjects were asked to think of words from a specific category, like "food" or "animals".​In order to make more money, people who make digital cameras and printer paper will tell you that their products are ... More >>

Heart Failure Gene Discovered...In the Kidney

image viaDr. Gerald W. Dorn II​Researchers at Washington University have identified a gene sequence that indicates a person is at risk for heart failure even before there are any outward signs, like high blood pressure. Surprisingly, this gene isn't connected to the heart. It's related to the ... More >>

Hot Enough For You?

It's Life, Jim, But Not As We Know It

​Space geeks have been crapping their pants since news hit the Interwebs Monday that NASA was holding a press conference "to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life." The announcement further defined astrobiology as "the study of the origin ... More >>

Ozzy Osbourne's DNA Map is In: He's Anxious and A Planner

Roadrunner Records​Over the summer, St. Louis-based Cofactor Genomics agreed to participate in a project to map and analyze Ozzy Osbourne's genes. Now the results are in -- and certain mutations found in Ozzy's DNA may explain why he say, bit the head off a bat all those years ago. According ... More >>

Scientists Find Likely Cause of Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder [Updated with Dissenting Opinion!]

Image via​The New York Times reports that scientists from the University of Montana and the U.S. Army have identified the likely cause of colony collapse disorder, which is blamed for destroying as much as 40% of the country's honeybee population since 2006.A fungus tag-teaming with a virus have a ... More >>

Just How Tall Were the Dinosaurs?

Everybody knows the dinosaurs were super-tall, but a University of Missouri anatomy professor has just proven everybody wrong. The dinosaurs weren't just super-tall. They were super-duper tall. The extra height, Casey Holliday and his team of researchers discovered, came from cartilage between the d ... More >>

Jonathan Katz: Wash U Prof Tapped By Obama to Solve Gulf Oil Crisis is "Homophobe, Climate Change Denialist"

Image sourceJonathan Katz describes himself as "a homophobe and proud"​Washington University physics professor Jonathan Katz is part of a five-man team of the nation's "best scientific minds" assembled by the Obama administration to help BP stem the flow of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. He' ... More >>

Atlantic Swordfish Lovers Rejoice! NOAA Says the Fish Can Return to the Plate

It's not a good time for seafood lovers, what with the Gulf of Mexico filling with bubbling crude, mercury- and bacteria-riddled marine life, and tuna populations being demolished by sashimi-crazed masses. But there is some good news. Last week the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration' ... More >>

Latest Lucky Stimulus Recipient Wash. U. Gets $14.3 Million for Genomic Data Center

Image sourceThe little green and purple spots are breast cancer genes. The federal government just gave Wash. U. $14.3 million to track down more cancer genes.​A $14.3 million stimulus grant to Washington University Medical School's center for genomics in the Central West End will create 350 new j ... More >>

Global Warming & Meteorologists: A "Hot" Topic?

reedypress.comCorrigan says everything in Missouri is political, even the weather. ​Is global warming real?Finally, somebody has asked the experts. Thank you, Don Corrigan, editor and co-publisher of the Webster-Kirkwood and South County Times newspapers. In his new book, Show Me Nature's Wrath, a ... More >>

Planet Walk Goes Up with a Big Bang in the Delmar Loop

Courtesy of Stephen WalkerWanna know where Saturn stands in relation to the sun, kiddies? Do your astronomy homework in the Delmar Loop!​On a scale of one to 5 billion, where does Uranus stand in relation to the sun? Well, if the sun is the Moonrise Hotel, and "5 billion" is Cicero's Restaurant, U ... More >>

Blast Off: German free-jazz legend Peter Brötzmann makes his first trip to St. Louis

Wash U Research Links "Gut Microbes" With Malnutrition

www.cs.stedwards.eduTurns out that William Chignoli (subject of this week's RFT feature) isn't the only guy in town working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to try and make the world a better place.Scientists from Washington University's Schools of Medicine and Genome Sciences recently r ... More >>

Painting Space

My heavens, that's nice art

The Kings of Leon Show Starts at 7 p.m., not 8 p.m.

Matt Garza Throws Pitch Through Catcher, Wall, Time

Botany Unshrouds the Past

Knowledge flowers with flowers' help

Local scientists can predict the far-reaching effects of rumblers through the Earthquake Hazard Mapping Project

University of Missouri biology professor Frederick vom Saal has been sounding the alarm about bisphenol A for a decade. Has he got your attention?

Prehistoric Pathway

Animatronics dions rule the zoo

Old Wood

Money Hubble

Genome: The Secret of How Life Works

Holy Cow!

Leave bovines and lawn artists alone.

NightBiker

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Ziyad Brand Pickled Lemon

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Hot Hot Heat

Combat it with cool, cool ice

Act I, Scene I

This could be the start of something big

Cell Block

Missouri scientists fear embryonic research may remain embryonic

Entertain Your Brain

This new docudrama is a real mind-bender

Melt-Banana with the Conformists and Corbeta Corbata

Monday, June 9; Galaxy

Science, Weird and Rough

Kirkwood High grad puts her science background to work on PBS program

Atom Smash

Wash U. brings to town Michael Frayn's Tony-winning Copenhagen and with it an intellectual cornucopia

Star Chamber

Who knew that a local junior high commanded such an amazing view?

Dinosaur

Directed by Ralph Zondag and Eric Leighton

ON SHAKY GROUND

The earthquake hazard here may be greater than you think. And planning for it is less than you'd expect.

How Did You React When You Learned that Fermat's Last Theorem Had Been Solved?

Arianna's Comet

Well, it was almost her comet. Turned out to be a galaxy instead. But "there's still more space to search."