Research

WSU research sheds new light on what “peer” really means and how separating that term from “friend” will help address adolescent drinking.

Their work is a powerful new tool for addressing a bevy of regulatory concerns and commercial claims as non-medical marijuana, hemp and CBD products become more commonplace.

The technique uses a liquid mold that can be manipulated with magnets to create lenses in a variety of shapes and sizes.

Knodler was awarded 2019 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease funding for her research exploring pathogenic microbes of the gut.

WSU research shows there is an opportunity for developing wine tourism in Washington State and Oregon by marketing characteristics such as natural vineyards and organic practices.

WSU researchers and the Puyallup Tribe of Indians will evaluate whether medicinal cannabis reduces opioid use and pain and improves the physical and mental health of clients at the Tribe’s Qwibil Natural Healing and Research Center.

A team of Washington State and Tufts University researchers have uncovered fundamentals in how mirror-image molecules interact, a discovery that could have implications in biochemistry, medicine, and industry.

The plant-based material surpasses the insulation capabilities of Styrofoam, is very lightweight and can support up to 200 times its weight without changing shape. 

Leslie New will spend three years on the Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel, studying endangered whales found off the coast of Russia’s Sakhalin Island.

Affirming statements like ‘eat your lentils if you want to grow bigger and run faster’ are more effective at getting kids to make healthy food choices than simply presenting foods repeatedly without conversation.

Expiration dates on milk could eventually become a thing of the past with new sensor technology from WSU scientists.

The initiative is funded by a $30 million grant from USAID as part of a program to initiate Centers of Excellence in water, energy and agriculture in Egypt.

The College of Veterinary Medicine has become the first in the nation with an accredited simulation training program developed for and devoted to veterinary care.

Celestina Barbosa-Leiker shared early results from an ongoing study investigating how opioid use disorder affects men and women differently at WSU Health Sciences’ Inland Northwest Research Symposium on April 23.

The immense amounts of data being created by next-generation sequencing technologies make the kind of annotation errors the WSU team found especially problematic.

A new study led by a team of WSU neuroscientists has brought scientists closer to identifying the causes of disturbed sleep in autism.