Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is a neuromodulation therapy, which means it’s a treatment that changes the patterns of activity of your nerves. Vagus nerve stimulation can treat epilepsy, seizures, and ...

The pursuit of external grants directly supports our educational mission. The opportunity to be engaged in research as ...

ECE Assoc. Prof. Zheng Zhang among four potentially high-impact projects seeking to solve critical energy-efficiency challenges have been awarded more than $240,000 in cumulative funding related to ...

Geoscientists employed current-day stratigraphic, depositional and paleontological models, along with modern technological muscle to provide updated insights of the Cambrian period of the Grand Canyon ...

Biologists at Brown University found what makes some types of tomatoes more heat tolerant, yielding insights that could help ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

A series of hands-on teaching modules created and shared by Virginia Tech researchers has filled a gap in data science ...

Scientists unveil the long-mysterious qualities of baseball’s “magic” mud, which every MLB team uses on game balls. The unique properties of baseball’s famed “magic” mud have never been scientifically ...

This study was conducted at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science and School of Arts & ...

Using data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers ...

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate -- over 40 times the theoretical ...

A low-mass supermassive black hole appears to be consuming matter at over 40 times the theoretical limit. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered LID-568, a supermassive black hole ...