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April 12, 2019
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The Continuing Legacy of the Rovers that Could
NASA's rovers continue to inspire the imagination. As part of the North Carolina Science Festival, we reflect on the impact of their explorations.
April 12, 2019
Discovering the Ship Before Blackbeard
Before Queen Anne's Revenge became Blackbeard's flagship it was a slave trade ship
March 28, 2019
Teen's sudden-onset schizophrenia may be linked to cat bacteria
A teen boy suddenly became psychotic, and bacteria from a cat scratch may have been the culprit
A case study from NC State connects teen's sudden-onset schizophrenia to a bacteria found in animals
March 27, 2019
Small but mighty T-Rex Relative discovered by NC scientists
NC scientists discover previously unknown (and small!) dinosaur
March 8, 2018
The recycling industry wants us to be better at recycling
The Southeast is grappling with "trashy" recyclables more than a year after China's stopped taking them
The Southeast has a thriving group of manufacturers that rely on recycled "feedstocks," but contamination remains a problem
March 8, 2018
Big Winds, Big Bridge, Big Month in NC
Big happenings in North Carolina this month: monster winds on Grandfather Mountain, and new bridge on the coast. Photos courtesy of Grandfather Mountain and Dan Bowers, Ocracoke Observer
March 1, 2019
Iconic Beach Town Studying Storm Surge & Sea Level Rise
The town of Duck conducts a vulnerability assessment with help from the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines
Feburary 22, 2019
Bug bombs don't work, says NC State
It might feel satisfying to "bomb" insects, but research shows that it doesn't work
Total release foggers, better known as "bug bombs" are ineffective, according to research from North Carolina State University
Feburary 8, 2018
Ancient Shark with ‘Spaceship-Shaped’ Teeth Discovered
Remember that popular 1980’s video game Galaga? Little triangle shaped space ships would fly around the screen. Laser cannons would fire out of the top of the ships, laying waste to aliens that dropped down from the top of the screen. Now imagine finding the fossilized teeth of a freshwater shark that lived 67 million years ago in the forests, swamps and winding rivers of what is now South Dakota. Amazingly, those teeth look like the Galaga spaceships! So, if you’re a scientist, what would you call your ancient shark discovery? That’s right. Galagadon.