Diseases have repeatedly spilled over from wildlife to humans, causing local to global epidemics, such as HIV/AIDS, Ebola, SARS, and Nipah.
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 19, 2018
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What do online conspiracy theorists discuss; what are the recurring elements in these conversations; and what do they tell us about the way people think?
Social Sciences
Oct 30, 2018
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5
Sara Farthing, a first-year student in the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech, needed a mental picture.
Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 24, 2018
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149
Over the next decade, American manufacturers are facing an industrial skills gap with projections of 2 million manufacturing jobs going unfilled due to a lack of qualified and skilled applicants. A large portion of the current ...
Robotics
Oct 18, 2018
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11
Greater access to antibiotic drugs, together with their misuse and overuse, has accelerated the emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria worldwide.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 10, 2018
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2
Computers used to take up entire rooms. Today, a two-pound laptop can slide effortlessly into a backpack. But that wouldn't have been possible without the creation of new, smaller processors—which are only possible with ...
Materials Science
Oct 10, 2018
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9
Nothing foretells the coming of winter like frost on windshields.
Materials Science
Sep 17, 2018
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Researchers from Virginia Tech and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed a novel way to 3-D print complex objects of one of the highest-performing materials used in the battery and aerospace industries.
Nanomaterials
Aug 23, 2018
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173
If you only account for the matter we can see, our entire galaxy shouldn't exist. The combined gravitational pull of every known moon, planet, and star should not have been strong enough to produce a system as dense and complex ...
Astronomy
Aug 23, 2018
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For stink bugs to attract a mate or to communicate that they have found food, they use their own chemical language: pheromones.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 20, 2018
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