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A patch of giant hogweed has been found in Clarke and Frederick counties. Statewide alerts have warned people to watch for this noxious, invasive plant that can cause painful blisters and even lead to severe eye injuries including blindness.
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VCU Health celebrated a significant milestone in the redevelopment of its downtown medical campus on Friday, breaking ground on a $349.2 million outpatient facility.
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The new Advanced Chemistry Lab in the renovated EMU Suter Science Center is a learning space for upper-level students and the faculty who mentor them in labs and research related to analytical chemistry, environmental chemistry, biochemistry and molecular biology.
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Facebook is already the biggest player in the social media space. In the first quarter of its 2018 financial year, Facebook reportedly added 49 million daily users around the world.
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Summer officially arrives at 6:07 a.m. on Thursday. And typically, the first two months of summer coincide with the height of poison ivy season.
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A collaborative research team is on a quest to collapse a tiny pocket between cardiac cells that can cause big problems. Called the perinexus, the structure spans only tenths of a millimeter — all the space it needs to disrupt a person’s heartbeat.
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What if the issue with Bronco Mendenhall is, he isn’t sure that he wants to coach football anymore? I wouldn’t fault him if that was the case. There is more to life than football. We can all agree on that. Right?
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Virginia Tech and University of Pittsburgh researchers have discovered that when a person with the flu coughs or exhales, mucus and other airway secretions are expelled and appear to protect the virus when it becomes airborne, regardless of humidity levels.
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Governor Ralph Northam announced the award of grants totaling $1.265 million to localities throughout the Commonwealth that will fund school resource officer and school security officer positions.
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People who have greater levels of mindfulness — or the tendency to maintain attention on and awareness of the present moment — are better able to cope with the pain of being rejected by others, according to a new study led by a team of VCU researchers.
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