Ask Dr. Universe: Do spiders have good eyesight?
PULLMAN, Wash. – Most spiders have quite a few eyes, but they usually can’t see very well. Then again, seeing isn’t everything.
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Men think they are math experts, therefore they are
From Science Newsline PULLMAN, Wash. – Just because more men pursue careers in science and engineering does not mean they are actually better at math than women are. The difference is that men think they are much better at math than they really are.
No dis, just abled: Ph.D. student tweaks the message
By Linda Weiford, WSU News PULLMAN, WASH. – When Davi Kallman was a second-grader in El Paso, Texas, her teacher pulled her from the classroom one day to tell her she was “retarded” and would have to drop to a lower grade. Now pursuing a doctoral degree at Washington State University, she has proven that […]
Beauty in the eye of the beholder
It’s true; beauty does lie in the eye of the beholder — in the rods and cones of the retina, to be exact. According to Ken Kardong, professor of evolutionary biology in the WSU School of Biological Sciences, it is the neurobiology — or the way that color and light receptors in our eyes respond […]