A Virginia Tech-led initiative aims to revolutionize indoor air quality monitoring through a $40 million, five-year project called BRAVE (Bio Aerosol Risk Assessment Intervention Engineering), funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health.

Researchers with the Virginia Cancer Screening Research Network are looking for participants for a study that’s putting a new way of screening for cancer to the test.

A new study at the University of Virginia is testing to see if a common recreational drug can help people cope with the loss of a loved one.

A new ally in the fight against lanternflies has recently been discovered.

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.

A new study in Hungary shows that dogs, beyond being able to respond to commands like “sit” and “stay,” can learn to associate words with specific objects.

Offshore oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico give off much more methane emissions than official estimates, according to a study published Monday.

A new study has revealed that hemp compounds can be used to block the coronavirus from entering human cells.

Russia’s health officials have given a go-ahead to testing a combination of the AstraZeneca coronavirus shot and the single-dose version of the domestically developed Sputnik V vaccine.

The coronavirus driving the current pandemic can live on plastic and stainless steel surfaces for up to three days, researchers say in a study published as a letter to the editor in the New England Journal of Medicine. And it can linger in aerosols -- the suspension of tiny particles or droplets in the air -- for three hours, the study says. The results add to researchers' understanding of how long the new coronavirus can linger on surfaces and the air, though scientists have said more research is needed. Some highlights of the findings, according to Tuesday's letter:The new coronavirus was viable up to 72 hours after being placed on stainless steel and plastic. The study indicates that transmission of the new coronavirus is possible by aerosol and material, "since the virus can remain viable and infectious in aerosols for hours and on surfaces up to days," the researchers wrote.