UNC-TV Science Stories

UNC-TV Science Stories from SciTech Now North Carolina and More: Current Season 
(In Order of Most Recent Broadcast Date)

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1. May 11, 2018: Google-founded Gravity Games merge STEM and racing in Lenoir
   
   
2. March 7, 2018: How Wilson Bay was saved from more sewage pollution
   
   
3. February 14, 2018: This lab is in the business of breaking things
   
   
4. February 7, 2018: How personal values matter when making choices
   
   
5. February 1, 2018: Sea level rise puts pressure on Hyde County
   
   
6. February 1, 2018: Attack of the body-snatching parasites
   
   
7. Januray 25, 2018: The Carolina Hurricanes help explain why hockey needs physics
   
   
8. January 18, 2018: State park burns the forest in order to restore it 
   
   
9. January 12, 2018: Millions of bats are dying to 'white-nose syndrome,' biologists look for hope in N.C.'s Coastal Plain
   
   
10. January 4, 2018: Living with alligators: Lake Waccamaw residents learn to manage
    
    
11. December 13, 2017: Can Bears And People Coexist? Scientists find answers with Asheville study
    
    
12. December 11, 2017: Why this cricket farm outside Asheville raises millions of the protein-rich insect
    
    
13. November 17, 2017: Say goodbye to packaging: Netherlands company uses lasers to brand North Carolina sweet potatoes
    
    
14. November 8, 2017: Researchers help honeybees help themselves against a devastating parasite
    
    
15. November 1, 2017: This man-made material could help save NC's oyster population
    
    
16. September 27, 2017: Watch footage from a balloon camera that captured the solar eclipse
    
    
17. August 30, 2017: Meet the team behind the NFL's on-screen first down line
    
    
18. August 9, 2017: Infant Imaging
    
    
19. August 2, 2017: High Altitude Balloon Science
    
    
20. July 19, 2017: Micro Organs in Miniature (Rebroadcast form Season 1)
    
    
21. July 12, 2017: Sense of Air (Rebroadcast from Season 2)
    
    
22. July 5, 2017: O. Max Gardner Award: Dr. Ben Bahr
    
    
23. June 28, 2017: Diamond in the Rough (Rebroadcast)
    
    
24. June 21, 2017: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Matthew
    
    
25. June 14, 2017: Metabolomics
    
    
26. June 7, 2017: Discovering a New Galaxy: Interview with NC Astrophysicist Patrick Treuthardt
    
    
27. May 31, 2017: Blackbeard the Waveglider (Rebroadcast)
    
    
28. May 24, 2017: Printing 3D Organs
    
    
29. May 17, 2017: Germ-Killing Robots
    
    
30. May 10, 2017: Astronaut Jim Lovell returns to Morehead
    
    
31. May 3, 2017: Plants & Shadows
    
    
32. April 19, 2017: Half Earth
     
33. April 12, 2017: Solar Eclipse
     
34. April 5, 2017: Seismic Fish
     
35. March 22, 2017: The What's in the Water Show
     
36. March 15, 2017: Into the Soil
     
37. March 8, 2017: NC State Parks Director Reflects on 100 Years
      
38. March 1, 2017: Exploring a Part of the Battle of the Atlantic
     
39. February 22, 2017: Great Smoky Mountain Air
     
40. February 15, 2017: Secrets of Currituck Sound
    
    
41. February 2, 2017: Candid Critters: Interview with Dr. Roland Kays
    
    
42. January 19, 2017: New Clues to the Lost Colony
     
43. January 12, 2017: Aspirin of the Future
     
44. December 15, 2016: Acoustic Architecture
     
45. December 8, 2016: The Touchdown Magnet
     
46. November 17, 2016: A Drone's Eye View of the Ocean
     
47. November 10, 2016: New Weather Warnings
     
48. November 3, 2016: Spider Silk
    
    
49. October 27, 2016: 50 Shades of Green
     
50. October 20, 2016: Hurricane Matthew: The Science of Cleanup
     
51. October 6, 2016: The Longest Water Record
    
    
52. September 22, 2016: Bioprocessing
    
    
53. September 15, 2016: Seagrass Science
     
54. September 8, 2016: Nest Egg Science
     
55. August 25, 2016: Science Above North Carolina
    
    
56. August 18, 2016: Synchronous Fireflies
     
57. August 4, 2016: Nobel Prize Winner
     
58. July 14, 2016: Seeing Inside the Human Machine
     
59. July 7, 2016: Carolina Bays (Rebroadcast from Season 2)
     
60. June 30, 2016: Sense of Air (Rebroadcast from Season 2)
    
    
61. June 23, 2016: Future Fuels
    
    
62. June 16, 2016: Diamond in the Rough
    
    
63. June 9, 2016: Let There be Light
    
    
64. June 2, 2016: Virus Tracking
    
    
65. May 26, 2016: The Pythons are Coming!  
     
66. May 19, 2016: Blackbeard the Wave Glider
     
67. May 12, 2016: Hearing Loss and Dementia (Rebroadcast from Season 2)
     
68. May 5, 2016: Star Finders 
     
69. April 28, 2016: Breaking Habits
     
70. April 21, 2016: It's the Pits
    
    
71. April 7, 2016: The Oak Stands Tall
    
    
72. March 24, 2016: Exposure Science
    
    
73. March 17, 2016: Animals on the Grid
    
    
74. March 10, 2016: Space Scoop
    
    
75. March 3, 2016: Modeling Your World
    
    
76. February 18, 2016: Secrets of Guilford Courthouse Battlefield
    
    
77. February 11, 2016: Mechatronics
    
    
78. February 4, 2016: What a Face