
Pesticides used to help bees may actually harm them
Pesticides beekeepers are using to improve honeybee health may actually be harming the bees by damaging the bacteria communities in their guts.

Pesticides beekeepers are using to improve honeybee health may actually be harming the bees by damaging the bacteria communities in their guts.

Local residents and community activists joined environmental and social justice groups to call for a comprehensive study and review of state fracking standards.

Young children can now be taught what foods to eat for healthy hearing and ears; sensible advice that we should really all abide by.

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 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.

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.

Scientists first discovered fusion as a potential energy source in the 1930’s and have been quietly working on it ever since.

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.

Pokemon Go is a mixture of Facebook’s data mining and targeted advertising scheme with the freemium game model.

With fewer than 14 weeks to go before the November presidential election, Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump in both two-way and four-way Florida ballot scenarios.
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