Research

Suspected suicidal cannabis exposures have increased 17% annually, over a period of 12 years, according to an analysis of U.S. poison center data.

Discovery of a gene in multiple mammalian species could pave the way for a highly effective, reversible and non-hormonal male contraceptive for humans and animals.

Gossip influences if people receive advantages whether they work in an office in the United States or in India — or even in a remote village in Africa, a WSU study found.

WSU-led research in C. elegans worms suggests that animals’ ability to live longer in cooler temperatures is tied to a nervous system protein that controls collagen expression.

An online “e-health” program helped more people with chronic pain reduce their opioid medications and pain intensity than a control group that had only regular treatment in a clinical study.

A quick, affordable diagnostic test developed by a WSU researcher may help curb one of the most prevalent but least known sexually transmitted infections.

Most people who ranked high in “joy of missing out” or JOMO also reported high levels of social anxiety in a recent WSU-led study.

A WSU-led study found that high winds increased the prevalence of Campylobacter in outdoor chicken flocks, a bacterial pathogen in poultry that is the largest single cause of food-borne illness in the U.S.

A WSU-led study found that neutral or awkward behavior of mothers with their babies at 12 months correlated with an epigenetic change on a gene associated with stress response when the children were 7 years old.

A liquid nitrogen spray developed by WSU researchers can remove simulated moon dust from a space suit, potentially solving a challenge for future moon-landing astronauts.