A recent West Virginia University graduate was the recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in recognition of his research accomplishments and his proposal for […]
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Postcast 67 – April 16, 2021
[spreaker type=player resource=”episode_id=44355129″ width=”100%” height=”200px” theme=”light” playlist=”false” playlist-continuous=”false” autoplay=”false” live-autoplay=”false” chapters-image=”true” episode-image-position=”right” hide-logo=”false” hide-likes=”false” hide-comments=”false” hide-sharing=”false” hide-download=”true”] Welcome to another episode of The Postcast, the audio companion […]
Strength in numbers: 17-year cicadas to emerge by billions
MORGANTOWN — Spending 17 years underground is bound to leave any insect eager to stretch its wings, and billions of Brood X periodical cicadas are preparing to […]
Zombies, cicadas and UFOs
by Tricia Bishop They’re not locusts, but they might as well be. Billions of beady-eyed cicadas digging their way out of the soil in 15 Eastern states […]
Return of the Zombie Cicadas
WVU team unearths manipulative qualities of fungal-infected flyers WVU Today Mind games aren’t exclusive to humans. Cicadas infected with the parasitic fungus Massospora unknowingly engage in trickery […]
