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Scientists Called This Dinosaur Boring. It Was Actually a Prehistoric ‘Mole’

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The milky way galaxy

Dec 7, 2023

Ancient Stars Made Extraordinarily Heavy Elements

How heavy can an element be? Ancient stars were capable of producing elements heavier than any element on the periodic table found naturally on Earth.

Dec 7, 2023

NC State University Offers High Schoolers With Disabilities a Pathway to a STEM Career

CBS 17
GIST is a program that connects students with autism to geographic information systems. Catalyst is a program for students with any disability, concentrating on STEM content and skills. Both are held at NC State’s Science House.

Dec 6, 2023

The Stellar Forge: Charged Particles and Element Creation in Stars

SciTechDaily
New research from North Carolina State University and Michigan State University opens a new avenue for modeling low-energy nuclear reactions, which are key to the formation of elements within stars. The research lays the groundwork for calculating how nucleons interact when the particles are electrically charged.
Sunlight hits a piece of paper bearing Albert Einstein's signature.

Dec 4, 2023

Letters From a Legend

An exchange of letters between Albert Einstein and former NC State mathematics professor Raimond Struble is now permanently housed at NC State University Libraries.
Graduate student Eric Yanchenko, Associate Professor Erin Schliep, Associate Professor of the Practice Emily Griffith and Goodnight Distinguished Professor Subhashis Ghoshal from the Department of Statistics

Nov 30, 2023

From the Departments

Catch up on the latest news from our academic departments.

Nov 28, 2023

Navassa Residents Roll Up Their Sleeves to Participate in PFAS Exposure Study

NC Health News
In 2017, the year that GenX chemicals, which are a class of PFAS, were found in the Cape Fear River, NC State epidemiologist Jane Hoppin and colleagues launched the GenX Exposure Study to answer some of the many questions about the potential health impacts of the chemicals on humans.
NC State gateway at sunset

Nov 28, 2023

Understanding Charged Particles Helps Physicists Simulate Element Creation in Stars

Figuring out how nucleons interact at low energy can lead to understanding how elements form within stars.

Nov 21, 2023

‘A Beautiful Place That Has a Dragon’: Where Hurricane Risk Meets Booming Growth

The New York Times
“It’s always climate change plus something, and we’re moving more people into harm’s way than out,” said Kathie Dello, North Carolina’s state climatologist.

Nov 21, 2023

What Causes a Volcano to Erupt? World Watches as Iceland Prepares for Impending Eruption

FOX News
Arianna Soldati, PhD, an assistant professor of volcanology in the department of marine, Earth and atmospheric sciences at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, told Fox News Digital that volcanic eruptions are almost always preceded by earthquakes.

Nov 14, 2023

Scientists Called This Dinosaur Boring. It Was Actually a Prehistoric ‘Mole’

MSN
The dinosaur in question, called Willo, is a specimen housed at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences ... ‘The irony is that paleontologists generally think of these animals as pretty boring,’ said co-author Dr. Lindsay Zanno, of North Carolina State University.