Quasar Tsunamis Discovered – Highest Energy Outflows Ever Witnessed in the Universe
Using the unique capabilities of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers led by Virginia Tech’s Nahum Arav has discovered the most energetic outflows…
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How Environment Influences the Spread of Infectious Disease Revealed in Banded Mongoose Study
With outbreaks of infectious diseases making headlines around the world, scientists are under pressure to understand the drivers that influence the transmission of pathogens in…
Remarkable Discovery of 1 Billion-Year-Old Green Seaweed Micro-Fossils in China
Virginia Tech paleontologists have made a remarkable discovery in China: 1 billion-year-old micro-fossils of green seaweeds that could be related to the ancestor of the…
Minimizing the Impacts of Severe Weather on Wildlife
When Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida in September 2017, the Category 5 storm offered a team of wildlife researchers a first-ever opportunity to observe…
“Weird Things” Seen in X-Ray Images Reveal Insects’ Physiological Responses to Gravity [Video]
Imagine you are flipped upside down and standing on your head. After a few seconds, you would feel pressure in your head due to an…
Innovative New Scale Armor Design Inspired by Chiton Mollusk
The motivations for using biology as inspiration to engineering vary based on the project, but for Ling Li, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the…
New Compound Could Help Improve Heart Attack Recovery
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC scientists discover potentially protective compound. Imagine there were a drug that you could take soon after a heart attack…
Scientists Discover 3-Foot-Tall Relative of the Tyrannosaurus Rex
A new relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex – much smaller than the huge, ferocious dinosaur made famous in countless books and films, including, yes, “Jurassic…
New Research Shows Plants May Use “Language” to Communicate
New research from Virginia Tech reveals that plants may use a newly discovered molecular language to communicate with each other, opening the door to a…
Scientists Shed New Light on Black Hole Development
Using a large array of satellites and space observatories, astronomers discovered that winds blowing from a supermassive black hole in NGC 5548 work to obscure…