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If you’re one of the millions of Americans who go whitewater rafting or kayaking— you may want to check your helmet. Researchers at Virginia Tech just released their findings after testing thousands of whitewater helmets, and they found only a handful offer enough protection against brain injury.
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Nikki Giovanni is known around the world for her writing and activism, and she recently retired from teaching at Virginia Tech after 35 years. Much of her writing is about social issues, like race and gender. “The role of the poet in society is to tell the truth,” Giovanni said.
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Researchers at Virginia Tech are developing underwater robots, to be able to map the ocean and study the impacts of microplastics, which are broken down bits of plastic pollution that are filling most of our waters, and could be posing health risks to humans and animals across the world.
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The Afghan Girls’ Robotics Team has been internationally recognized. They’ve won numerous awards for their skills in engineering and robotics. Many of the former team members have dispersed to other countries to pursue their education, including Ayda Haydarpour, an incoming freshman at Virginia Tech.
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Scientists often test medical treatments in animals before using them in people, but scientists at Virginia Tech are flipping that script – using a promising, non-invasive alternative to surgery to treat cancer in dogs. Sandy Hausman has that story.
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Virginia Tech’s agricultural program is about to get a boost— $31 million went into constructing five new buildings that will be used for teaching students how to raise chickens, pigs, cattle and horses.
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New guidance by the CDC no longer recommends that people exposed to COVID-19 quarantine at home, as long as they are asymptomatic and test negative. Public schools in Virginia and universities have recently released their own recommendations for students and teachers; they too are relaxing several precautions.
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Several precautions Virginia Tech enforced last year have been revised for the upcoming school year. The university released new COVID-19 safety guidelines Monday ahead of its fall semester.
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A team of researchers at Virginia Tech has developed an underwater glove designed to allow humans to have the grip of an octopus. The “octo-glove,” as the researchers have dubbed it, is black, with suction cups the size of raspberries on the fingertips that sense objects and pick them up. In trials, the glove has picked up a metal plate and a red toy truck.
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A new study could make predicting future pandemics more accurate-- by combining math with research on human behavior.