Feldspars, which make up 60 percent of all the rock on the earth's surface, were little understood as recently as the 1950s. Professor Helen Megaw of Cambridge University was the expert and led a research group of Ph.D. ...

The Department of Defense announced plans to award $43.5 million to academic institutions to support the purchase of research instrumentation. Four of the 213 awards to 92 academic institutions will come to Virginia Tech.

Virginia Tech will present solutions to two major challenges to high-performance computing--efficient storage and energy use--at the Supercomputing 07 (SC|07) Conference Nov. 12-15 at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center.

Virginia Tech has reported research expenditures of $321.7 million to the National Science Foundation for fiscal year 2006 (year ending June 30, 2006), which is an 11 percent increase over 2005.

Dinosaurs ruled the earth for hundreds of millions of years, then disappeared so completely that to find even a partially complete skeleton of a single multi-ton animal is rare. Meanwhile, the Virginia Museum of Natural ...

Virginia Tech researchers from geosciences and biology are looking at where arsenic occurs in water, how it is getting there, and how to prevent it. They will present their findings at the 116th national meeting of the ...

There were 4.1 million tons of lead bullets fired in the United States in the 20th century. Is that lead having an environmental impact?

Members of the general public look to museums for the best examples of ancient life í¢•À_•À_åäóù the biggest dinosaur, the nicest fossils of plants and bugs. Increasingly, researchers are looking to museum collections to ...

In 1998, Shuhai Xiao and colleagues reported finding thousands of 600-million-year-old embryo microfossils in the Neoproterozoic Doushantuo Formation, a fossil site near Weng'an, South China (Xiao, S., Zhang, Y., and Knoll, ...

A Virginia Tech research group, led by two biochemistry graduate students, has isolated proteins responsible for the iron-sulfur cluster assembly process and witnessed the necessary protein interactions in vivo - within a cell. They have captured pathway intermediates and observed protein interactions between the two major players in iron-sulfur cluster assembly....