Science & Technology

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.

A WSU research team has received a U.S. Department of Commerce grant to train civil engineering students in emerging technologies as well as in social intelligence to better meet industry needs.

A novel surgical implant developed by WSU researchers was able to kill 87% of the bacteria that cause staph infections in laboratory tests.

WSU climate scientists Deepti Singh and Kirti Rajagopalan contributed to key portions of the 5th National Climate Assessment.

The internal clocks of grizzly bears appear to keep ticking through hibernation, according to a WSU-led genetic study.

Most people who reported using cannabis to get a good night’s rest in a recent study have quit using over the counter or prescription sleep aids all together.

WSU researchers have been awarded a $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant to improve the efficiency of automated apple harvesting robotics.

Bears at WSU’s Bear Research, Education, and Conservation Center are now hibernating, but they won’t sleep nonstop till spring.

Chemical engineering graduate student Naseeha Cardwell plans to use the National GEM Consortium fellowship to conduct computational catalysis research in the field of renewable energy.

For owl watchers like WSU wildlife ecologist Jennifer Philips, fall is sometimes called “the hooting season.”