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Washington State University Scientists Land $8.5 Million Defense Contract

SPOKANE, Wash. -- A team of scientists at Washington State University’s Applied Sciences Laboratory (ASL) has been awarded an $8.5 million research contract to develop and demonstrate reactive materials to be used in a new generation of national security applications. Read more
Making Decks Safer

Most of us don’t lie awake at night worrying about our decks. But we should. According to Don Bender, director of the Wood Materials and Engineering Laboratory at Washington State University, the deck is the most dangerous part of the house. Read more
What now, mad cow? Weighing the effects of the BSE-infected Holstein in Mabton

Terry McElwain, executive director of the Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, oversees a new "high-throughput” lab at WSU. One of seven similar facilities nationwide, the mission of the lab is to test sick cattle condemned at slaughter. Read more

A Skeptical Nature May be Your Best Defense Against Online Frauds

If you’re not easily taken in by e-mail “phishing” attempts and other fraudulent Internet scams designed to get you to reveal sensitive personal information, it may not be so much a result of your online experience and computer savvy as a natural reflection of your own personality.
A quick test for a killer

Which micro-organism is responsible for 28 percent of the annual deaths from foodborne illness? Hint: It's not E. coli.
WSU Researchers Find Prisons Offer Few Economic Benefits to Small Towns

Throughout a boom in correctional facility construction that has spanned the past three decades, many of the nation’s most depressed rural communities have vied to become a site for new prisons, expecting significant economic benefits would follow.

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