WVU engineers seek ways to prevent them on rural roads WVU Today Drivers on winding West Virginia roads often encounter road damage caused by rockfalls, even if they aren’t present when the rocks tumble down the hillside. West Virginia University researchers hope to cut down on ...
I once saw a post that described communicating as “emitting sound waves from one person’s mouth that go into another person’s ears and are then converted into brain waves.” It’s a really interesting way to think about language and communication. And it’s crazy to think about the ...
MORGANTOWN -- Looking for the perfect Christmas for the school superintendent who has everything? You can’t go wrong with a check containing a figure and a kite tail of zeros, said Eddie Campbell Jr., who heads Monongalia County’s school district. Campbell is hoping the state School ...
Sometimes discoveries are hidden in plain sight. Or under a decomposing log, as in the case of one West Virginia University forest pathologist and mycologist. Upon the WVU Animal Science Farm woodlot off West Run Road, Matt Kasson has taken note of the presence of a squirmy, whitish ...
All life has seven characteristics in common: they have some sort of order, respond to changes in their environment, reproduce, grow and develop, regulate themselves, do things to maintain homeostasis, and process energy. When plants notice that sunlight comes from a certain place, they ...
WVU researcher’s creations could change space exploration, agriculture, mining WVU Today A West Virginia University engineer is combining the study of neuroscience and robotics to better understand the nervous system and motor output of insects to create animal-like robots ...