Eating plastic to feel fuller and drinking alcohol to improve foreign language skills are the suggestions of award-winning studies at the tongue-in-cheek 2025 Ig Nobel prize ceremony.

Insects are essential for ecosystems, but mounting evidence suggests many populations are collapsing under modern pressures.

Xueping Chen, the lead author of the study, said the findings provide strong support for using pterostilbene as an active ...

With the surging popularity for electric vehicles (EVs), rapid charging is a challenge as it requires power delivery ...

SPRINGFIELD — Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) has launched a STEM studies program designed to equip students with the technical knowledge, practical skills, and hands-on opportunities ...

TRAPPIST-1, a planetary system 40 light years from Earth, could host a planet with an atmosphere and liquid water, but astronomers can’t be certain just yet.

Researchers at the ESRF, the European Synchrotron, together with CNRS, ENS Lyon and the Institute of Marine Research in ...

Deforestation has indirectly resulted in the deaths of more than half a million people in tropical regions over the past two ...

The College of Natural Sciences welcomed more than a dozen new tenured and tenure-track faculty members in 2025.

If you’ve ever wanted to explore the intersection of science, technology, and society but without getting buried under formulas and lab reports Virginia Tech’s Science, Technology, and Law (STL) minor ...