Federal snack program does not yield expected impacts
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A well-intentioned government regulation designed to offer healthier options in school vending machines has failed.
Search Results for Virginia Tech research
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Arlington workshop will initiate dialogue on workforce development for veterans
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Shashank Priya, the Robert E. Hord Jr. Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech, is no stranger to problem solving.
New precision medicine approach could save patients grappling with life-threatening intestinal infections
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For years, patients in hospitals and nursing homes have faced an elevated risk of infection and even death due to a bacterium known as Clostridium difficile.
Crowdsourced Civil War-era digital archive helps interpret the past, present via Fourth of July
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For many Americans celebrating the Fourth of July holiday translates to engaging in lighthearted festivities.
Overlap in computer modeling holds key to next-generation processing
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Exascale computing — the ability to perform calculations at 1 billion billion per second — is what researchers are striving to push processors to do in the next decade.
Nonnative catfish not primary driver of American shad declines in James River
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Nonnative species that are introduced into ecosystems are a growing concern for scientists and conservationists.
Ancient enzyme provides insights into modern-day metabolism
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An organism that uses a 3.5-billion-year-old process holds the key to understanding modern-day functions, such as digestion.
Discovery could take the guesswork out of when meds will work best
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An uncomfortable truth of modern medical science: chances are nobody knows when your drugs are working.
Unusual new species of extinct reptile shows dinosaurs copied body, skull shapes of distant relatives
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Iconic dinosaur shapes were present in animals for at least 100 million years before dinosaurs themselves actually appeared.
Energy-harvesting backpack to lighten load for U.S. soldiers
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United States Army soldiers on 72-hour missions sometimes carry seven types of batteries weighing up to 16 pounds.
