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The Natural Resources Defense Council estimates there are at least 330,000 lead pipes funneling tap water into Missouri homes and other buildings — the sixth-highest of any state in the nation.

Poet Naomi Shihab Nye attended Central Elementary School in Ferguson. Jeremy D. Goodwin talked with her on Friday's "St. Louis on the Air."

Washington University will no longer have campus police respond to mental health emergencies.

Biogen’s new Alzheimer's drug, Aduhelm, is controversial — but it’s still in demand. Dr. Joy Snider, a Washington University neurologist, explains the issues involving the first Alzheimer's drug to receive FDA approval.

Burning fossil fuels has created a massive, global problem: climate change. New research from Washington University finds these fuel sources also have serious health consequences.

Mark Rank of Washington University's Brown School discusses his new book, "Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong About Poverty."

Found in wetlands from Missouri to Massachusetts, the bacteria could be absorbing carbon dioxide on a large scale, underscoring the importance of conserving these threatened habitats, Washington University scientists say.

Washington University researchers are working with the National Institutes of Health to provide five St. Louis County school districts free saliva testing for the coronavirus. The RADx-Up research program set up drive-thru testing sites on school campuses throughout the Normandy, Jennings, Pattonville, University City and Ferguson-Florissant school districts.

Fish only seem silent when you’re on the outside looking in. Bruce Carlson’s lab at Washington University has been breaking new ground in our understanding of how they communicate. The fish the biology professor studies use electric pulses — and, as it turns out, pregnant pauses — as they signal their peers.

At around 4:25, the Washington University authorities said the "person in question has been located and there is no active threat related to this incident"