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Despite popular belief that green roofs – roofs that are planted with...

Archaeologists analyzing the remains uncovered from an ancient Native American village in present-day Port Angeles, Washington, found evidence that the village was hit by as many as five tsunamis. A team of researchers from Portland State University, Western Washington University and the...

Team Turner Automotive won the 2019 Portland State University (PSU) Cleantech...

Portland experiences both extreme heat in the summer months and frequent nuisance flooding in the winter and spring, and that's only expected to worsen with climate change. A new Portland State University study found the potential for flooding and extreme heat is most acute in East Portland’s...

The United States could fulfill its greenhouse gas emission pledge under the Paris Climate Agreement by virtually eliminating coal as an energy source by 2024, according to new research from Portland State University. Although the Trump Administration announced in 2017 that United States...

A Western diet high in fat and sugar can pack on the pounds. But it can also put someone at greater risk of developing severe sepsis, according to a study by a Portland State University researcher. The study, appearing in the Feb. 11 edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy...

New research from Portland State University finds vitamin D, or a lack thereof can trigger or suspend embryonic development in a species of fish. The study also provides evidence suggesting the vitamin is critical to the early development...

Portland State University researchers have made a significant breakthrough...

A Portland State University math and statistics professor has been awarded nearly $500,000 to continue his work as part of the largest family history study of Alzheimer's disease in the world. Bruno Jedynak uses algorithms and statistical...

Researchers at Portland State University and Oregon State University looking at the aftermath of wildfires in southwestern Oregon and northern California found that after 20 years, even in severely burned areas, Douglas-fir grew back on its own without the need for salvage logging and replanting....

Researchers from Portland State University and the Oregon Department of Geology...

With the help of a federal grant, a Portland State University professor is trying to make it faster and easier to diagnose an increasingly common language disorder known as anomia. Gerasimos Fergadiotis, a speech-language pathologist in PSU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Steven...