Science & Technology

Large wildfires and severe heat events are happening more often at the same time, worsening air pollution across the western U.S., a study led by WSU researchers has found.

WSU engineers collaborated with researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China to unravel an underlying mechanism of a catalytic reaction at the atomic level.

A new Q&A series for young audiences, Ask Dr. Universe: Meet the Scientists, is now available on Northwest Public Broadcasting’s Kids YouTube channel.

A WSU‑led research team received a National Science Foundation grant to develop a database of river experiments from around the world to help improve modeling of waterway contaminants.

Multiple large heatwaves the size of Mongolia occurred at the same time nearly every day during the warm seasons of the 2010s across the Northern Hemisphere, according to a study led by WSU researchers.

In recent years, polar bears in the Beaufort Sea have had to travel far outside of their traditional arctic hunting grounds which has contributed to an almost 30% decrease in their population.

In experiments at WSU, scientists developed a technique to see these matter wave caustics by placing attractive or repulsive obstacles in the path of a cold atom laser.

A hundred times more powerful than the Hubble, the new telescope will enable Vivienne Baldassare to determine if star clusters and small galaxies have black holes at their center.

Efforts to sequence the genomes of the world’s animals tend to focus on those that most resemble humans, according to a WSU‑led analysis.

The National Weather Service presented a WSU‑run weather station in Clark County with an award recognizing a history of data collection that goes back well over a century.