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Jul 8, 2025

Allison Pratt’s Mission to Bring Science Home

EdNC
At just 17 years old, Allison Pratt is already charting a bold course in science, service, and scholarship. A graduate of SandHoke Early College High School — Summa Cum Laude, with an associate in arts degree — Allison will enter North Carolina State University in fall 2025 as a junior, majoring in biological sciences with a concentration in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology.

Jul 8, 2025

Galactic Mystery: How ‘Ice Cubes’ Survive in the Milky Way’s Blazing Bubbles

National Science Foundation
“These findings change our previous assumptions, showing that cold gas can persist in the hot, turbulent Fermi Bubbles,” explained Rongmon Bordoloi, the lead scientist of this research and an associate professor North Carolina State University, “We didn’t know that cold gas can survive in these extreme outflows. This challenges our understanding of how galaxies recycle and expel matter.”

Jun 27, 2025

Map Shows States With Highest Use of Harmful Pesticides

Newsweek
Gerald LeBlanc, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, told Newsweek: “I am not concerned that 2,4-D may cause cancer in humans. IARC has classified 2,4-D as a Group 2B carcinogen, which means that it is possibly carcinogenic to humans. In my estimation, 2,4-D might cause cancer in humans, but only at unrealistically high exposure levels.”

Jun 26, 2025

A New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands the Same Side Up

Quanta Magazine
At first, it might seem obvious that this should work. “After all, this is how roly-poly toys work: Just put a heavy weight in the bottom,” said Dávid Papp of North Carolina State University. But “this only works with shapes that are smooth or round or both.” When it comes to polyhedra, with their sharp edges and flat faces, it’s not clear how to design something that will always flip to the same side.

Jun 25, 2025

Breaking Down the Science Behind Tropical Storm Andrea

FOX Weather
The first named storm of the 2025 hurricane season, Tropical Storm Andrea, formed on Tuesday in the north Atlantic. Anantha Aiyyer, professor at North Carolina State University, explains how the storm was able to form under unusual circumstances.

Jun 19, 2025

NC-ACS Project SEED Program Students Head to Japan

C&EN
High school student Lizbeth Luna-Lopez, who worked in the lab of Caroline Proulx, an associate professor of chemistry at NC State, will present her research project at Nagoya University in Japan.

Jun 17, 2025

Floods Are Worsening but Engineers Worry National Rainfall Database Won’t Be Updated

The only member of the Atlas 15 team to provide comments was lead scientist Ken Kunkel, a principal research scholar at North Carolina State University’s Institute for Climate Studies. He has studied heavy precipitation for more than 30 years and hopes that completion of Atlas 15, volumes 1 and 2 will be the capstone of his career.

Jun 4, 2025

Advocates Protest Pesticide Measures in N.C. Senate Bill, Point to Potential Health Effects

North Carolina Health News
While there is premarket testing on pesticides, there’s no testing on people, said Jane Hoppin, an environmental epidemiologist at NC State University. Most people don’t know what’s in the pesticide they use, such as ant poison, which makes studying health effects difficult, she said.

Jun 3, 2025

Emily Griffith Receives the 2025 Libraries Faculty Award

Griffith is a Professor of the Practice in the Department of Statistics and the director of consulting for the Data Science and AI Academy.

May 30, 2025

Unlocking Room-Temperature Superfluorescence for Advanced Quantum Technologies

AZO Quantum
In a recent study published in Nature, the international research team at North Carolina State University details both the underlying process and the specific material requirements for achieving superfluorescence at room temperature. This research could provide a guide for creating materials that exhibit unusual quantum states – like superconductivity, superfluidity, or superfluorescence at higher temperatures.