Category: Biological sciences
19 Web Exclusive(s) found that match this category.
Video: The Primal Power of Play
Summer 2013
Play and depression may be opposite sides of a coin, says Dr. Jaak Panksepp, a neuroscientist and the Baily Endowed Chair of Animal Well-Being at Washington State University
Categories: Psychology, Biological sciences
Tags: Neuroscience, Video, Children, Child development
Video: How to inseminate honey bee queens
Summer 2012
Sue Cobey, a bee breeder who splits her time between Washington State University and the University of California at Davis, where she manages the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, describes instrumental insemination of honey bee queen...
Categories: Entomology, Biological sciences
Tags: Honey bee, Breeding, Queen bees, Video
Video: The Amazing Leaproach
Spring 2012
An insect’s small size gives it the gift of relatively greater strength. The newly discovered South African cockroach Saltoblattella montistabularis takes advantage of this fact plus several other features, as Washington State University entomologi...
Categories: Biological sciences, Physics
Tags: Entomology, Insects, Video
Video: Jaak Panksepp on the brain and searching the web
Summer 2010
Washington State University neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp discusses how a simple web search can be driven by one of the brain’s most fundamental impulses.Read what other WSU professors say about reading and thinking in the digital world in "Dear rea...
Categories: Computer sciences, Biological sciences
Tags: Addiction, Neuroscience, Internet, Brain, Video
Pasteur’s Quadrant
Summer 2009
Reporters, college administrators, and even scientists themselves often talk about basic and applied research as if they are the two ends of a spectrum, and that most research can be described as being either “purely basic,” with no practical ...
Categories: Biological sciences
Tags: Innovation, Research
Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe's work to help people with memory loss
Spring 2009
Whether the problems stem from normal aging, diseases like Alzheimer’s, or traumatic brain injury, impaired memory can turn even routine tasks into major challenges. The main focus of Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe’s work is finding ways to help ...
Categories: Biological sciences
Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Memory
Videos of the James Entomology Collection
Winter 2008
A series of videos introducing WSU's James Entomology Collection and its work in research, collection, education and service.
Categories: Biological sciences
Tags: Museums, Entomology, Video
Videos of the Conner Museum
Winter 2008
A series of videos introducing WSU's Conner Museum and its work in research, education, and public service. The Charles R. Conner Museum features the largest public collection of birds and mammals in the Pacific Northwest, and the scientific collecti...
Categories: Biological sciences
Tags: Research, Genetics, Zoology, Museums, Video
Coping with Climate Change
Winter 2008
Several years ago, scientists noticed that recent herbarium specimens had been collected earlier in the season than specimens from decades past. Since most plants are collected when they are in flower, that meant they were flowering earlier. The ...
Categories: Biological sciences, Botany
Tags: Museums, Herbarium
Dem bones
Winter 2008
The Conner has one of the biggest collections of bird skeletons in the nation. Kelly Cassidy opens a drawer and pulls out a box the size of a small microwave oven. It rattles. It contains a disarticulated golden eagle skeleton, each piece labeled ...
Categories: Anthropology, Biological sciences
Tags: Museums, Zoology