Community effort revives Waynesboro YMCA playground
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It started with the need for a new fence. Eventually, the Waynesboro YMCA playground got a facelift.
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Pesticides used to help bees may actually harm them
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Pesticides beekeepers are using to improve honeybee health may actually be harming the bees by damaging the bacteria communities in their guts.
Locals, environmental groups raise concerns over fracking standards
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Local residents and community activists joined environmental and social justice groups to call for a comprehensive study and review of state fracking standards.
Eating right for healthy hearing
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Young children can now be taught what foods to eat for healthy hearing and ears; sensible advice that we should really all abide by.
Virginia Tech medical student receives Fulbright to study the treatment of opiate addiction
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A Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine student will embark on a year-long Fulbright study to address the growing problem of opioid addiction.
Virginia Tech assisting military in developing materials that trap, render harmless chemical warfare agents
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Virginia Tech Department of Chemistry faculty and students are assisting the U.S. military in creating new materials that can trap and destroy chemical warfare agents, such as sarin and VX nerve gas.
Bio-Med Tech-Girls to tackle Children’s Hospital Challenge
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St. Anne’s-Belfield School is collaborating with the UVA Department of Biomedical Engineering and Charlottesville Women in Tech as part of the third annual Bio-Med Tech-Girls program.
Why are environmentalists so bullish on fusion energy?
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Scientists first discovered fusion as a potential energy source in the 1930’s and have been quietly working on it ever since.
$19.4 million grant to increase cyber workforce development at Virginia Tech
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Virginia Tech will receive $19,420,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help increase cyber workforce development and encourage scientific partnerships to deliver innovation in the field.
Oliver Stone calls Pokemon Go ‘Surveillance Capitalism’
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Pokemon Go is a mixture of Facebook’s data mining and targeted advertising scheme with the freemium game model.
