New research from Virginia Tech shows that bed bugs are likely the first human pest.

Corn earworms are one of the most economically harmful pests in North America, and they can quickly become resistant to common insecticides. However, researchers at Virginia Tech are testing a new method to curb the negative impact of the pest: utilizing a type of fungus.

A new Virginia Tech research study revealed a gene mutation in bed bugs that may have contributed to their insecticide resistance.

After a new study at Virginia Tech, some professionals have identified hantavirus as having “pandemic potential.”

The Library of Virginia brought its mobile programming van, LVA On the Go, to the Bedford Public Library System’s Forest Library, 15583 Forest Road, Forest, Virginia, on Wednesday, April 9, from 12 to 4 p.m.

The BWXT Innovation Campus features laboratories where the Advanced Technologies team is designing, building and testing advanced nuclear systems for NASA, the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, state governments, national research labs and commercial customers.

Virginia Tech’s Pamela VandeVord and Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Gunnar Brolinson recently recieved a $2.17 million grant from the National Institute of Health.

The Fralin Biomedical Research Institute will be holding their 12th annual Brain School on March 10!

Researchers at the University of Virginia are using a common type of brewer’s yeast to study cancer.

NASA researchers are trying to collect as much data as possible from this eclipse.

Students at Radford University are in Alaska for a research project.

You may be seeing fewer birds at your feeders lately as the wild bird population is declining in North America, according to Virginia Tech researchers.

The $90-million proposal to fund a “Virginia’s Research Triangle” would include Roanoke-based Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.

On Thursday, Carilion Children’s received a 2 million dollar check from the Life Ring Foundation for their new cancer center.

Virginia Tech researchers are drawing a connection to certain scents humans use to being more attractive to mosquitos.

Scientists have created baby mice with two fathers for the first time by turning male mouse stem cells into female cells in a lab.

February 28 is national Rare Disease Day. The lights on Roanoke's Wells Fargo Tower will chance colors to draw attention to rare disease, while researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC chip away at answers to diseases that impact up to 30 million Americans.

What started as spare change has turned into a legacy of service that’s now impacting important research at Virginia Tech.

Junior Achievement of Southwest Virginia is awarding the prestigious Entrepreneur of the Year award to Dr. Robert Gourdie at the Fralin Biomedical Institute at VTC for his groundbreaking research on how to use tiny particles in milk to deliver medicine in the body.

Researchers expect the first results from the trial in about a year.

One of the first studies to track whether COVID-19 vaccination might affect women's periods is offering reassuring findings.

Join Rachel and Bridget as they chat about the research behind dogs and their head tilts along with how today is National Men Make Dinner Day.

Two new international studies show the immune protection from two doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine drops off after about two months.

Virginia’s getting nearly $1 million to study how the pandemic has impacted public school students and teachers. Researchers with the Virginia Department of Education and the University of Virginia will use the federal grant to look at pre-pandemic and post-pandemic trends, like grades, absenteeism and teacher retention. The study will last three years and follow students during that time. The goal is to create evidence-based policy reports so schools know how to help students moving forward. Researchers will also examine the effectiveness of school reopening and recovery plans, as well as the impact on higher education.

Getting enough sleep is vital for overall health, but experts say a significant number of Americans are falling short. In fact, that number shows about 1 in 3 adults are struggling to get a consistent 6 hours of sleep. Many are actually getting less than that each night. One sleep expert says the biggest mistake people make is not allowing enough buffer time between activities and bedtime. She says you need to send physical messages to the brain that it’s time to switch gears.

Ending involuntary homelessness by 2035 is the goal for one advocacy group. On Friday, researchers focused on the factors that go into homelessness, particularly for children. It’s associated with increased secondary educational attainment. It’s associated with prevention of early pregnancy and parenthood,” said Dr. Amy Dworsky with the University of Chicago. According to the group, Times for Homes, a fifth of children live in poverty in America.

BLACKSBURG, Va. A new research study is underway by a Virginia Tech professor in collaboration with researchers at Harvard. The results show that individual quarantines will be the best defense against future outbreaks of COVID-19. They used mathematical models to study how effective contact tracing is, using data about how the virus acts and how quickly it spreads. Instead of just monitoring your symptoms and going about your daily life if youve come in contact with someone whos infected, researchers found that isolation and quarantine are the best ways to stop the spread: 96% effective. As a comparison, just monitoring your symptoms, they found, is only 12% effective at controlling the spread of COVID-19.