PULLMAN, Wash.– Washington State University researchers have developed the first fuel cell that can directly convert fuels, such as jet fuel or gasoline, to electricity, providing a dramatically more energy-efficient way to create electric power for planes or cars.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Ten scholars presented their research on a variety of topics including criminal justice, ethnic studies, history, nursing, psychology and zoology earlier this month at Washington State University’s 2014 McNair Achievement Program symposium.
By Anna Montgomery, International Research and Agricultural Development PULLMAN, Wash. – To help Kenyan families irrigate subsistence and cash crops, two Washington State University economists are studying the marketing, financing and impact of a human-powered treadle irrigation pump.
PULLMAN, Wash. – A new educational and outreach website has launched to provide information to scientists, growers and industry about genome databases for citrus, tree fruit and berry crops.
By Sylvia Kantor, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences SEATTLE – If Dan Barber had his way, there would be a wheat breeder like Stephen Jones in every corner of every state. Jones features prominently in the new New York Times bestseller, “The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food,” written […]
By Rebecca E. Phillips, University Communications PULLMAN, Wash. – Sultry summer barbeques on the deck don’t usually include third-degree burns and concussions. But for dozens of people each year, happy gatherings are cut short when the floor below their feet suddenly gives way, resulting in serious injuries and death.
By Eric Sorensen, WSU science writer PULLMAN, Wash.—Researchers at Washington State University have used a super-cold cloud of atoms that behaves like a single atom to see a phenomenon predicted 60 years ago and witnessed only once since.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Energy-efficient computers, climate change and renewable energy are just a few of the projects being researched by 59 students from colleges nationwide at Washington State University this summer.
By Linda Weiford, WSU News PULLMAN, Wash. – Of the hundreds of automobiles that enter the parking lot each week at Washington State University’s Bear Research, Education and Conservation Center, two Toyotas entice the bears like no others.
PULLMAN, Wash. – The number of planets in the Milky Way galaxy which could harbor complex life may be as high as 100 million, Washington State University astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch writes in a column posted this week on the Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine website.