by Faye Flam The right and left may not agree on what constitutes misinformation, but both would like to see less of it on social media. And as the world faces the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the threat medical misinformation poses to public health remains real. Companies like ...
When I’m speaking, my family members are able to hear the sound waves my mouth emits. They are able to then turn these sounds into ideas and thoughts and emit sound waves so that I can hear them. The cycle continues in a seemingly simple yet beautiful manner. Sounds come from waves ...
WVU engineers create software for aerobots WVU Today Engineers at West Virginia University are propelling exploration forward by creating control software for a group of aerial robots (aerobots) that will survey the atmosphere of Venus, the second planet from the sun. According to ...
When we think of life on Earth today, we imagine diverse sets of animals and plants. Life also includes tiny unicellular organisms called bacteria, some of which reside in our bodies. The three domains of life are Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya. The domain Archaea is made up of prokaryotic ...
The phrase “grim milestone” has cropped up with such frequency in the last 20 months that it’s beginning to lose its meaning. Because West Virginia surpassed the grime milestone of 5,000 state deaths last week, and barely anyone paused. Nearly 4,000 of those deaths have occurred ...
Center won’t have formal office space That’s the thing about Elephant Toothpaste — it always makes an entrance. “Huh, what do you think about that?” Dr. Frederic Bertley asked, while those gathered in the school cafeteria at Mountaineer Middle broke into whoops and ...