A Virginia Tech College of Science economics researcher says the popular social media website Facebook - and its open sharing of information - is a vital and often a significant tool against government corruption in countries ...
Economics & Business
Apr 24, 2017
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Is feeding the world's human population compatible with protecting the biological diversity of the planet?
Social Sciences
Apr 20, 2017
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The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill did $17.2 billion in damage to the natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico, a team of scientists recently found after a six-year study of the impact of the largest oil spill in U.S. ...
Environment
Apr 20, 2017
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According to U.S. Bureau of Justice statistics, American prisons currently house more than 2.2 million individuals, a population roughly the size of Houston, Texas. This incarceration rate is staggeringly high—no other ...
Social Sciences
Apr 12, 2017
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The skeleton of a small, short-snouted reptile found in China was recently identified as the oldest known member of the phytosaurs—an extinct group of large, semi-aquatic reptiles that superficially resembled the distantly-related ...
Archaeology
Apr 10, 2017
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Children who are given high-quality education at an early age - starting at six weeks old and continuing through their first five years of life - are more likely to be employed full-time and have better relationships with ...
Social Sciences
Apr 6, 2017
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Humans, and most other mammals, have just four muscles joining their ears to their head. Bats have more than 20, and they use them to execute a precise series of wiggles, swivels, and twitches.
General Physics
Apr 6, 2017
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113
Mobile phones have increasingly become the repository for the details that drive our everyday lives. But Virginia Tech researchers have recently discovered that the same apps we regularly use on our phones to organize lunch ...
Software
Apr 3, 2017
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191
Some genetic mutations can cause a virus to flourish. Others make the virus wither away, unable to function normally and reproduce. Yet other genetic mutations only show their hand under certain conditions.
Biochemistry
Mar 31, 2017
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107
Brucella bacteria have a not-so-illustrious reputation for causing illness and death in mammals.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 30, 2017
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