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‘Ice in a Volcano’ Reveals Age of Gas Cloud at Milky Way’s Center

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Rongmon Bordoloi

Aug 1, 2025

Astrophysics at NC State: Q&A With Rongmon Bordoloi

Associate Professor Rongmon Bordoloi, an observational astrophysicist, explains what astrophysics is and how you can study it, too.

Jul 28, 2025

EPA Seeks to Bring Back Twice-Banned Pesticide

Newsweek
Gerald LeBlanc, a professor of biological sciences at the North Carolina State University, told Newsweek: “Dicamba is being returned to use due to heavy lobbying from the agriculture industry. The industry claims that there are few alternative herbicides that can be effectively used in the large-scale control of weeds. While glyphosate has been used as an alternative to dicamba, the industry claims that weeds are becoming increasing resistant to glyphosate requiring that a substitute be found. The industry claims that if use instructions are followed, drift can be minimized. Not everyone agrees with this.”
Dr. Nanette Nascone-Yoder in white labcoat stands with her arms crossed in her lab on the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine campus.

Jul 22, 2025

$2.8 Million NIH Grant Funds Organ Formation Research

Nanette Nascone-Yoder from the College of Veterinary Medicine and Julio Belmonte from the College of Sciences are investigating how cellular mechanisms guide left-right asymmetric organ formation.

Jul 17, 2025

Experts Issue Warning on Ocean Phenomenon That Could Impact Hurricane Season: ‘It’s Been Notable Over the Month’

Yahoo!
Carl Schreck, a senior research scholar with the North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies at North Carolina State University, explained the inner workings of the weather phenomenon.
A group of undergraduate students who helped plant a "donor marsh" in Carteret County.

Jul 14, 2025

NC State Students Are Restoring Crucial Coastal Habitats With First-of-Its-Kind Plant Nursery

Students in this summer’s marine science field course helped establish a “donor marsh” with thousands of young plants to aid the state’s salt marsh restoration efforts.

Jul 10, 2025

Scientists Warn Climate Change Is Fueling More Frequent, Intense Flash Floods Nationwide

WCIV
“During Helene, they talked a lot about it being a once-in-a-thousand-year event or more,” Carl Schreck, senior research scholar with NC State and NC Institute for Climate Studies, told News 13. According to Climate Central, rainfall rates today are now 15% higher than in 1970. “That’s not taking into account climate change, where these events are starting to happen more frequently,” Schreck added. “So, the same rainfall today will have more moisture to work with and cause more rain than it would have 50 or 100 years ago.”

Jul 9, 2025

Intense Downpour Like Those in Texas Are More Frequent, But There’s No Telling Where They’ll Happen

Texarkana Gazette
“It’s just loading the dice toward heavy rainfall when the situation is right,” said Kenneth Kunkel, a climate scientist at North Carolina State University. “This month was the Texas Hill Country’s turn to get hit. Last fall … in western North Carolina, it was our turn."

Jul 9, 2025

Ice in a Million-Degree Fermi Bubble Reveals the Milky Way’s Recent Eruption

Science Daily
“The Fermi bubbles are enormous structures of hot gas that extend above and below the disk of the Milky Way, reaching about 25,000 light years in each direction from the galaxy’s center — spanning a total height of 50,000 light years,” says Rongmon Bordoloi, associate professor of physics at North Carolina State University and corresponding author of the research.

Jul 9, 2025

Gut Length Driven by ‘Sexual Conflict’ in Fish Species

In cichlids, some of the genetic loci for gut length are sex-specific even though males and females of the same species have the same gut length.

Jul 8, 2025

‘Ice in a Volcano’ Reveals Age of Gas Cloud at Milky Way’s Center

Researchers find clouds of cold gas embedded deep within larger, superheated gas clouds – or Fermi bubbles – at the Milky Way’s center.