June 19, 2018
WSU researchers have seen how both humans and fruit flies deploy a protein that plays a critical role in their immune responses to invading bacteria.
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June 15, 2018
Brandon Hopkins, a WSU honey bee researcher, tells how bees around the world are turning nectar from flowers into sweet, golden honey.
June 15, 2018
Xiao Zhang, associate professor in WSU Tri-Cities’ Bioproducts, Sciences and Engineering Laboratory, is targeting the use of lignin to create affordable biofuels and bioproducts.
June 14, 2018
A WSU researcher has received a U.S. Department of Defense grant to develop a more convenient, less expensive and less painful way to treat serious eye diseases.
June 8, 2018
Dr. Universe reveals what the big stink is with insights from Elizabeth Beers, a researcher and entomologist with the WSU Tree Fruit Research & Extension Center.
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June 7, 2018
Joy Erlenbach’s research has her camping in the Alaska wilderness, surrounded by grizzly bears, for a third summer.
June 4, 2018
Researchers at Washington State University and the University of Idaho have found a new way to estimate how fast magma is recharging beneath the Yellowstone supervolcano.
June 1, 2018
Some puffer fish can inflate to the size of a balloon or a beach ball. Wes Dowd in WSU’s School of Biological Sciences, has found several reasons for this unusual ability.
May 30, 2018
WSU researchers for the first time have used 3D printing to create multimaterial structures in one step.
May 25, 2018
WSU veterinarian Katrina Mealey explains how a dog’s wet nose affects temperature control and its sense of smell.
May 24, 2018
Identifying cancer and other health biomarkers in real-time is the aim of a software development project.
May 18, 2018
A WSU research team wins Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Best Paper Award.
May 18, 2018
Former professor and long-time WSU Tri-Cities donor Ronald Kathren and his wife, Susan Kathren, have donated a huge collection of radiological books to WSU Tri-Cities.
May 18, 2018
The James and Marilyn Oliver Hyde estate has gifted $1.4 million to support students in Department of Entomology.
May 16, 2018
Washington State University scientists are getting two new laboratories in outer space.
May 14, 2018
Two WSU scientists, working in their spare time and without funding, built an electron microscope in the 1930s to help usher in the era of atomic-level imaging.
May 14, 2018
Two WSU assistant professors land prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Program awards.
May 11, 2018
All plants need water. Some use interesting strategies to stay alive, notes Charles Cody, a WSU greenhouse manager.
May 11, 2018
Ancient microbes that thrive in some of the world’s most extreme environments and modern-day humans have more in common than meets the eye.
May 11, 2018
Computer science transfer students are as successful in their classes as those who originate in WSU’s program, study shows.
May 10, 2018
Transplanting fungi to restore native plant populations in the Midwest and Northwest is the focus of efforts by a team of WSU Tri-Cities researchers.