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Two recently published studies show that prolonged exposure to gratuitous violence in the media can escalate subsequent hostile behaviors and, among some viewers, foster greater acceptance of violence as a means of conflict resolution, according to Virginia Tech and University of Alabama researchers.
A genetically altered vaccine developed by a researcher in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine has received the final green light from the United States Department of Agriculture and is now being commercially marketed as an agent to prevent pneumonia in pigs.
Archaeopteris, an extinct tree that made up most of the forests across the earth in the Late Devonian period, had the same structure as modern trees, report three Virginia Tech scientists in the April 22, 1999, issue of Nature.
The decision by manufacturers to raise the price of cigarettes last year will have a significant impact on whether young people take up smoking and how much tobacco farmers grow in the future, according to a Virginia Tech study released this week.
Bioinformatics experts from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (USA) and the European Media Laboratory (Germany) have joined forces to develop a software for simulating biochemical networks. It will be offered free to academic researchers and also available to businesses.
Streams are vibrant ecosystems, and the smallest streams remove as much as half of the inorganic nitrogen that enters them, according to researchers from more than a dozen institutions. (Science, 4-6-01)
Someday maybe a salad will be just as rich in vitamin C as a glass of orange juice since genes from a rat have been found to increase the vitamin in lettuce.
D.H. Lawrence (Lady Chatterley's Lover) used his writings to work out the issues in his life. The authors of Living at the Edge researched many original, unpublished sources, particularly letters by Frieda von Richthofen (Lawrence's wife), and interviewed people who knew the couple to produce a biography that reveals a difficult man and a vibrant woman.
Lighting makes up 20 percent of electricity use in the United States. Greater use of florescent lighting would reduce energy use. Now a newly patented device from the Center for Power Electronic Systems at Virginia Tech has the potential to make florescent lighting even more efficient and desirable for many applications.
Virginia Tech engineering researchers are designing e-textiles -- cloth interwoven with electronic components -- for use as personal "wearable computers" and as large sensing and communications fabrics.
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