Corn kernel character teaching about GMOs
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Jake, a GMO corn kernel, stars in The Life of a Seed, an animated video created for gmoanswers.com, a website dedicated to answering consumers’ questions about how food is grown.
Search Results for Virginia Tech research
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Could indoor farms be oases in food deserts?
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Inside a 100-year-old former YMCA, researchers from Virginia State University are discovering which techniques for indoor farms work best in an urban environment—and hoping to help reduce the problem of food deserts in American cities.
Ancient parrot talks: UVA archaeologist and others listen
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Somehow, colorful tropical scarlet macaws from tropical Mesoamerica – the term anthropologists use to refer to Mexico and parts of northern Central America – ended up hundreds of miles north in the desert ruins of an ancient civilization in what is now New Mexico.
Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership advances efforts to use unmanned aircraft for utility inspections
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Unmanned aircraft researchers associated with the Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership at Virginia Tech tested new sensor technology designed to detect potentially disruptive activities along energy pipeline routes.
Senior apartments in Richmond reduce carbon footprints
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Scores of Richmond residents converged in Churchill Wednesday to learn about energy efficiency while touring Better Housing Coalition’s Somanath Seniors Apartments and Lofts at Beckstoffer’s, a local EarthCraft™-certified multi-residential property.
Some discoveries start small
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The Wright Brothers’ story is proof that scientific discoveries become engines for America’s competitiveness and inspiration of hope for millions across the globe.
UVA News: What happens when you let students invest the endowment?
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At the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, $10 million of the school’s endowment is not managed by investment firms, faculty or administrators. It is managed by MBA students.
Scientists find that saline solution composition can affect cardiac response differently
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Saline solution is a staple of every hospital. No matter the ailment, doctors have known for more than a century that saline is key to keeping patients hydrated and maintaining their blood pressure levels.
Western Washington University professor completes study of mercury contamination in South River
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The South River flows along the western foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, coiling its way across farmlands and through small towns, marching north to join first the Shenandoah and then the Potomac before eventually emptying into the Chesapeake Bay.
Scientists embark on expedition to Antarctica to study temperature effects on the brain
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A team of scientists with the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute will travel to Antarctica to find out, for the first time, how rising temperatures affect the brains and hearts of the icefish – and what it means for the rest of the world.
