Science & Technology

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.”

A bioreactor developed by WSU researchers to rapidly grow cancer-killing white blood cells could advance the availability of immunotherapy.

A WSU research team received a $1.9 million grant to develop a paper sensor that will help scientists gather information on people’s smoke exposure to wildfires.

The aerospace company leader Bob Smith told a group of students and faculty that we’re in the second golden age of space flight.

Bob Smith, chief executive officer of space company, Blue Origin, and Mary Rezac, dean of the Voiland College of Engineering & Architecture will discuss the company’s step-by-step quest to make space travel accessible to humanity in a fireside chat on Friday, Oct. 20, 11 a.m.

Barring bad weather, sky watchers in Eastern Washington will be in for a rare treat this Saturday as the moon’s shadow blots out 98% of the sun.