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The traditional paper handling aid is that tan rubbery gizmo that accountants or postal workers place on their fingertips to easily shuffle pages. But, with help from WSU researchers, the Washington entrepreneurs selling Tippi Fingertip Grip (ONLINE @ www.tippibrand.com) hope paper-shufflers will replace those gizmos with their brightly-colored “grippier” grips.
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Nanoscientist Lai-Sheng Wang, professor of physics and materials science at Washington State University Tri-Cities and affiliate chief scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, has been awarded a Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists. The 60,000 Euro award, which is one of the top awards given by Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, recognizes Wang’s “past accomplishments in research and teaching.”
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An international consortium of researchers announced this week that it has finished sequencing the entire genome -- all the DNA -- of the honey bee. Washington State University entomologist Walter S. (Steve) Sheppard, a member of the sequencing team, also co-authored a study that strongly suggests that honey bees originated in Africa and spread to Europe and Asia during at least two major migratory periods during their history.
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PULLMAN, Wash. – Researchers at Washington State University have created design guidelines for new molecules that could enhance the speed of internet communications and other optical technologies.
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Rich, velvet-red, fresh sweet cherries are in high demand, and so are skilled laborers to harvest the highly perishable crop.
However, labor shortages and labor costs may soon be a thing of the past for Northwest cherry producers, if consumers will accept their fresh cherries free of stems. In a project funded by Washington State University's International Marketing Program for Agricultural Commodities and Trade Center, scientists here are perfecting a mechanical alternative to hand-picking fresh sweet cherries.
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Maybe it was the glamor of gold that attracted so much attention to Lai-Sheng Wang after he fathered the gold buckyball, a hollow cluster of gold atoms. Less glamorous, but perhaps more promising, is his subsequent research on more mundane material.
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When it comes to scientific immortality, not much beats having a fundamental physical relationship named after you. Ask Washington State University physicist Mark Kuzyk, who in 2000 discovered what has become known as the Kuzyk Limit.
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Researchers at Washington State University and in the United Kingdom have announced a discovery that may someday allow the world's farmers to decrease their dependence on nitrogen fertilizers, resulting in billions in savings to farmers and a reduction in the amount of nitrogen pollution that has already turned some waterways into dead zones.
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Graduate students arrive in Pullman for all sorts of reasons, but Seung-Yong Lim arrived looking for a better tasting lowfat ice cream.
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In Thomas Friedman’s much-talked-about book, “The World is Flat,” globalization is shown to have an equalizing effect on parts of the world economy through advances in technology. This may lead to unforeseen unfavorable changes in U.S. manufacturing, construction and agriculture. But being forced to change also can be a good thing.
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Dozens of lenses, mirrors, lasers and vacuum chambers sprawl across two large tables, linked by electrical cables, optical fibers and water lines. Physicist Peter Engels flips switches and adjusts dials. The machine clicks through its procedure, and a minute later a computer screen flares with a pencil-shaped bright patch on a field of gray.
“It’s the coldest thing in the universe,” said Engels, nodding toward the bright image.
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Earth’s most heat-tolerant animals may not live in the tropics or a desert. They likely live at the bottom of the ocean, around hydrothermal vents where magma seeps out of the planet’s interior. Near the vents, molten minerals mix with frigid seawater to create habitats that are home to some of the oddest – and hardiest – organisms known.
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Legend has it that the adolescent George Washington demonstrated his honesty when he confessed to chopping down his father’s lone cherry tree. Today, one of his myriad namesakes, Washington State University, is rectifying the Founding Father’s youthful indiscretion.
