Bull, beef industry prices are up nationwide
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While droughts in 2011 and 2012 decreased cattle herds across the country, the beef industry is now enjoying an increase in demand and price—particularly prices for breeding bulls.
Search Results for research
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How are environmentalists putting drones to use to help further their causes?
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Conservationists are utilizing drones, or “unmanned aerial systems” (UAS) technology, to gather highly detailed imagery and other environmental data that is traditionally challenging to obtain.
UVA responding to possible China cyber hack
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Federal authorities notified the University of Virginia of a possible intrusion originating from China, and the University confirmed on June 11 that attackers illegally accessed portions of its systems.
VMI professors publish article showing effectiveness of small claims courts in colonial Virginia
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An interdisciplinary study recently published by three Virginia Military Institute professors shows that courtrooms served the colonial Virginia frontier well in enforcing credit contracts.
Poll: Donald Trump leads Republican field in Iowa
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Businessman Donald Trump leads the field of Republican presidential candidates among likely GOP caucus voters, according to a new poll from Suffolk University.
Hearing aids: Making conversation easier
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Research shows that two hearing aids make speech easier to understand than only one. Just as the brain converts visual input from both eyes into one clearly defined image, it turns the input from two ears into a single sound picture where speech stands out more clearly.
James River Writers Presents: Writing Virginia into Your Fiction
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For its August Writing Show, James River Writers travels the Commonwealth in search of stories short and long.
Virginia Tech students to launch experimental 3-D printer on NASA rocket ship from Wallops Island
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How would a 3-D printer work in the microgravity of suborbital space after surviving a jarring ride 100 miles above the earth? A group of Virginia Tech College of Engineering students hope to have an answer next week after a launch at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility.
Robert Hurt: Progress in the People’s House
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The 114th Congress began with high expectations as the American people sent an urgent message that they wanted change to get our great nation back on track.
Ken Plum: Alzheimer’s epidemic
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In 1982 my then legislative assistant came to me distressed that her father had been found to have Alzheimer’s disease.
