
Strange, electricity-conducting bacteria yield secret to tiny batteries, big medical advances
Scientists have made a surprising discovery about how strange bacteria that live in soil and sediment can conduct electricity.

Scientists have made a surprising discovery about how strange bacteria that live in soil and sediment can conduct electricity.

The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service is honoring Virginia Earth Team volunteers and celebrating their many contributions to natural resource protection during National Volunteer Week, April 7-13.

Auburn coach Bruce Pearl talks with reporters about his team’s game with Virginia on Saturday in the 2019 Final Four.

UVA Basketball coach Tony Bennett and players Kihei Clark, Ty Jerome and Kyle Guy talk with reporters on the Sweet Sixteen win over Oregon Thursday night.

America’s leading companies and law firms are meeting strengthened criteria to meet the evolving needs of the LGBTQ community around the world, according to the 2018 Corporate Equality Index released today by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.

People are opting for fake and synthetic urine for their drug test. They consume prohibited items in their job places, and later when the company carries out a drug test, they are caught.

UVA Basketball coach Tony Bennett and players Kyle Guy, Ty Jerome, De’Andre Hunter and Jack Salt talk with reporters on the eve of the team’s Sweet Sixteen game with Oregon.

Clean water is important for health and safety, but aging infrastructure and uninformed maintenance strategies can hinder access to it. We remember the tragic situation in Flint, Michigan, where lead poisoned the water.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam signed legislation into law requiring safe cleanup of four toxic coal ash sites along waterways in Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay watershed.

Potomac Riverkeeper Network and Potomac Riverkeeper Dean Naujoks today thanked Gov. Ralph Northam and Virginia legislators who worked across party lines to pass historic legislation to resolve the Commonwealth’s longstanding coal ash pollution problem.
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