Understanding and solving environmental challenges increasingly requires a combination of expertise from across multiple disciplines. This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program ...

Want to win the Virginia Regional Science Bowl? Here’s what it takes: Having detailed knowledge of the level of the work being done at some of the nation’s premier scientific labs. Solving complex ...

Elementary school students throughout our region and across the state are taking part in the 10th annual ‘Remake Learning ...

Urban heat, a solution for plastic pollution and saving gopher frogs. Plus, Raven Rock State Park. How heat acts like a “silent killer” across urban landscapes, and a breeding program that gives ...

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Researchers have developed a new, data-driven machine-learning technique that speeds up software programs used to solve complex optimization problems that can have millions of potential solutions.

A ripple tells you something happened, but not exactly what. That is the core problem behind a hard class of equations that ...

Ideas matter, but execution matters more. That’s why almost every successful person — in whatever way they choose to define “success” — are great problem-solvers. Success requires solving difficult ...

Anyone who has dealt with ants in the kitchen knows that ants are highly social creatures; it's rare to see one alone. Humans are social creatures too, even if some of us enjoy solitude. Ants and ...

One of the ways we try to understand the origins of human intelligence is by looking at its equivalents elsewhere in the animal world. But doing so turns out to be more complicated than it might seem.