The Rock Doc
Meet Kirsten
E. Kirsten Peters is a native of the rural Northwest, but she was trained as a geologist at Princeton and Harvard. Follow her at www.rockdoc.wsu.edu and on Twitter @RockDocWSU. This column is a service of the College of Sciences at Washington State University.
Progress reported in breast cancer research
Charles Perou of the University of North Carolina told NPR he believes the new genetic research might translate into treatment differences in two to five years. The most likely scenario is that treatment would first change for luminal breast cancer...
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Swedish research indicates exercise helps in retirement
I don't know about you, but I find it all too easy to sometimes come up with a reason I just can't exercise on a given day.
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Eating our way into trouble
Recent research from Oregon State University helps explain our pattern of cravings. It seems we have evolutionary adaptation to crave certain things.
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Carolina researcher trains dog to learn by exclusion
South Carolina researcher John W. Pilley trained a border collie named Chaser to learn more 1,000 proper names for toys and could reliably fetch them from another room or a different part of the yard and retrieve them.
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Salty tomb within underground crystal
Nuclear energy is part of our daily electrical power supply. No matter your feelings about that, we've got nuclear waste on our hands and we therefore need to address waste disposal. For my part, I'm glad WIPP is putting waste into a salty tomb.
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An average human carries up to 6 pounds of microscopic zoo
Researchers wonder what makes some people fall sick because of certain microbes while others carry them around but don't get ill, and may even benefit from their presence?
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Olympic star Phelps deals with drag in pool
I swim laps at noon several times a week. I enjoy the water, and the gentle exercise is good for my aging joints.
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WSU genebank keeps plant diversity alive
I work just a couple of blocks from a special kind of bank.
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Heat long puzzled science
Benjamin Thompson was an early scientist who studied heat. Born in 1753 in Massachusetts, he later moved to continental Europe where he was ultimately named Count Rumford of the Holy Roman Empire in recognition of his scientific accomplishments.
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An epidemic of whooping cough
PULLMAN, Wash -- Even if you don’t have kids in your household, you could be exposed to serious diseases that often affect children.
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Keeping potatoes happy, healthy
Axel Elling, assistant professor of Plant Pathology at Washington State University, views corky ringspot as a major threat to potatoes and the farmers who grow them. And the nematode, a microscopic worm in the soil, is the vector.
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