Reducing greenhouse gas emissions, relieving chronic pain, understanding protest behavior, and conserving wildlife are among the goals of eight faculty-mentored undergraduate research projects.
A high protein diet appears linked to kidney disease and shortened lifespans for captive polar bears, a relationship similarly suspected in humans, according to a paper led by a WSU wildlife biologist.
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 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.