Science & Technology

Washington State University researchers have received a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant to build technologies that can help process very large amounts of biological data.

Just like you need a good rest, so do bees. But, bee sleep is different than human sleep.

Hundreds of robot submarines — including one built by WSU Pullman engineering students — will gamble at casino tables 16 feet under water this week.

Daylan Kelting started programming computers in middle and high school. Now, in addition to pursuing a degree in computer science, he’s doing research in developing a valuable elder-care program.

PULLMAN, Wash. – Yellow butterflies almost half the size of a human hand have transformed parts of the Evergreen state into a big garden party.

Getting chills when we listen to music actually has a scientific name.

WSU researchers have developed for the first time a machine-learning computer model to predict how cancer patients will fare from their treatment.

July 23 was space farming harvest day on the International Space Station, as the WSU-led experiment ‘Final Frontier Plant Habitat’ yielded its produce.

While the moon is uninhabitable today, there could have been simple life forms on its surface in the distant past.

Sagebrush is a protective home for good bugs that help fight harmful pests on grape vines, according to new research from WSU scientists.

Engineers at WSU’s Laboratory for Atmospheric Research are using a computer modeling system to predict air pollution levels for the Pacific Northwest, including wildfire smoke.

WSU students win all three top prizes at the 2018 Retail Design Institute’s Student Design Competition.

Four WSU faculty have been elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences and two others were chosen to serve on the academy’s leadership board.

The future of the Columbia River Basin for irrigation depends not only on climate change, snowpack and precipitation, but the increasing demand for water.

There are quite a few foods that are sweet and good to eat, says Pablo Monsivais, with the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine.

WSU researchers have created a sustainable alternative to traditional concrete using coal fly ash, a waste product of coal-based electricity generation.