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How does social media drag us down so many rabbit holes? Virginia Tech researchers Alice Jang and Viswanath Venkatesh have coined a new term, “rareness bias diffusion.”
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A Virginia Tech study is showing us that you can actually train your dog to be able to identify spotted lanternfly egg masses.
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Might there be gold in Virginia’s hills? The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is working towards the answer.
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A team of researchers at Virginia Tech with specialties related to birds are flying high these days after receiving some news that ultimately could lead to certain social changes for humans and biological ones for their feathery friends.
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Complex, ill-structured, and thorny challenges require a convergence of expertise to advance beyond disciplinary boundaries and develop new frameworks for problem-solving.
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The prevalence of COVID-19 is on the wane, for now, according to CDC numbers, but the medical community remains vigilant, with researchers noting that the virus is constantly changing and mutating.
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Everyone knows that eating a balanced diet and exercising are important to maintaining one’s physical health, but what about one’s cognitive health – the ability to think, learn, and remember?
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While most consumers can monitor the food tossed into home trash cans or left on a restaurant table, significant food loss occurs throughout the supply chain.
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Nothing lasts forever, not even the supposed long-lasting rechargeable batteries, be they AAs or AAAs bought in store or the batteries inside our cellphones, wireless earbuds, or cars. Batteries decay.
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Virginia Tech researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine are developing a vaccine to combat the disease that has a near 100 percent mortality rate in newborn piglets.
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