U.Va. researchers have found that the simple eyes of fruit fly larvae provide just enough visual input to allow the animal’s relatively large brain to assemble images.

Two mechanical engineering students have built and flown a plastic airplane using 3-D printing technology at the engineering school’s Rapid Prototyping Lab.

U.Va. and Philippe Cousteau’s Azure Worldwide are collaborating with The Nature Conservancy to develop a large-scale computer simulation game based on a major Texas watershed. It is part of a new Global Water Games initiative.

A warming climate and rising seas will enable salt marshes to more rapidly capture and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, possibly playing a role in slowing the rate of climate change, according to a new U.Va.-led study.

U.Va. will partner on a National Science Foundation-sponsored national nanotechnology research effort to create self-powered devices to help people monitor their health and better understand how their environment affects it.

Pretend play that involves uses of the imagination to create a fantasy world or situation can be fun for preschool children, but a new University of Virginia study finds that it is not as crucial to a child's development as currently believed.

Three of the University of Virginia's most prominent faculty researchers – infectious diseases physician Dr. Michael M. Scheld, materials science engineer Haydn Wadley and cell biologist Judith White – have been selected as its 2012 Distinguished Scientists.