What does freedom mean to you? Students in the School of Education and other community members answered that question with ...

Two new fossil finds are rewriting what we know about ancient freshwater sharks that once cruised Triassic rivers in the American Southwest. Two hundred and twenty million years ago, before giant ...

Dark evenings and light mornings versus dark mornings and light evenings. As U.S. lawmakers debate the passage of the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight saving time permanent across ...

Who knew a Monarch butterfly could borrow a cell phone to check in with friendly people he met on his journey? That is essentially what happens now that new technology has reduced the weight of a ...

It's 9 p.m. on a rural mountain highway when a 750-pound elk steps onto the road, its silhouette hidden from an oncoming driver by a curve in the terrain. Suddenly, a roadside sign illuminates: ...

Declining Colorado River flows and falling water levels at Lake Powell and Lake Mead are highly visible signs of the Southwestern megadrought. Unseen below ground, groundwater reserves in the Colorado ...

A patch smaller than a penny could one day save the lives of people experiencing a fentanyl overdose – even when no one else is there to help. Researchers in Virginia Tech’s Department of Biological ...

Many parts of Virginia received much-needed rain after weeks of below-average precipitation, but much of the commonwealth remains inches behind average rainfall. For the 1 in 5 Virginians who rely on ...

This spring, Dining Services' Southgate Center launched custom cake orders available for anyone to purchase through Grubhub. While the center initially set goals to meet a recognized need, cake orders ...

A team of Virginia Tech geoscientists found a new way to look at the widespread impacts of dams on river temperatures: using Landsat thermal infrared imagery to gather data on rivers across the United ...