Many WSU studies that caught the media’s attention seemed to involve human pleasures, and their consequences, a focus that may reflect the global, post-pandemic mood.
WSU researchers have taken the first steps toward finding liquid solvents that may someday help extract critical building materials from lunar and Martian-rock dust, an important piece in making long-term space travel possible.
Seeing robots made with soft, flexible parts in action appears to lower people’s anxiety about working with them or even being replaced by them, according to a WSU study.
This year’s list of the world’s most Highly Cited Researchers include WSU experts in business, chemistry, Earth science, engineering, food, and medicine.
A fundamental discovery about the Fischer Tropsch process, a catalytic reaction used to convert coal, natural gas or biomass to liquid fuels, could someday allow for more efficient fuel production.
WSU researchers extracted up to 93% lignin with up to 98% purity from wheat straw, producing a significant amount of material in a uniform way that could make it more attractive for industry use.
A new generation of WSU engineers will learn not only how to build better robots but also how to make them work better with, and for, humans — thanks in part to a $3 million NSF grant.
New WSU catalysis research has the potential to lower exhaust emissions of methane, one of the worst greenhouse gases that traps heat at about 25 times the rate of carbon dioxide.
Taking a cue from the structural complexity of trees and bones, WSU engineers have created a way to 3D-print two types of steel in the same circular layer using two welding machines.