
Virginia Tech scientists use insect perfumes to lure stink bugs to expendable crops
When a stink bug finds a plant to eat, it produces a pheromone that alerts other stink bugs to the food source, similar to the ringing of a dinner bell.

When a stink bug finds a plant to eat, it produces a pheromone that alerts other stink bugs to the food source, similar to the ringing of a dinner bell.

Many patients choose to end treatment early and risk the return of their cancer rather than suffer such a dramatic detriment to their quality of life.

About five years ago the brown marmorated stink bug migrated into Northern Virginia and began damaging the apple crop and other produce.

Every year, traumatic brain injury afflicts more than 1.7 million people in the United States and leads to 52,000 deaths.

Virginia Tech researchers are working with partners in a $1 million pilot project to recover rare earth elements from coal.

Virginia basketball fans could learn from … Virginia baseball fans. (We’re pretty much one and the same.)

Registration is open for Virginia Military Institute’s 27th annual Environment Virginia Symposium, which will feature a talk by Gov. Terry McAuliffe.

The most important item in Room 106 at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine is a box of tissues.

Scientists have recorded the sound of two black holes colliding, a blockbuster moment in the science community that proves Albert Einstein’s century-old theory of relativity.

Paul Marek can now add “Spider Man” to his list of professional titles. The Virginia Tech assistant professor of entomology has had an actual spider named after him.
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