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Mar 26, 2024

These Photos Are Works of Art — And the Artists Are Bugs

National Geographic
Movements of flying insects make them tough to track, but technological advances and some creative thinking have allowed Spanish photographer Xavi Bou to do just that. After spending 10 years concentrating on birds in flight for his Ornithographies project, he shifted his focus to bugs. For Entomographies, he uses high-speed video footage taken by Adrian Smith, an entomologist at North Carolina State University, to decode and document insect trajectories.

Mar 26, 2024

Birds, Bees and Even Plants Might Act Weird During the Solar Eclipse

Washington Post
Adam Hartstone-Rose, a professor of biological sciences at North Carolina State University, led a study of how animals reacted to the 2017 eclipse at the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, S.C.

Mar 26, 2024

The Art of Insect Flight

Entomologist Adrian Smith and artist Xavi Bou collaborated on an insect-based art project.

Mar 26, 2024

‘It’s Really High Stakes’: Researchers to Observe Animals’ Behavior During Next Month’s Total Solar Eclipse

Fast Company
Researchers will be standing by to observe how animals’ routines at the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas are disrupted when skies dim on April 8. They previously detected other strange animal behaviors in 2017 at a South Carolina zoo that was in the path of total darkness. “To our astonishment, most of the animals did surprising things,” said Adam Hartstone-Rose, a North Carolina State University researcher who led the observations published in the journal Animals.

Mar 23, 2024

‘Courtship’ Gene Shows Different Effects in Two Fruit Fly Species

Phys.org
“The fruitless gene was first found in D. melanogaster, but it is conserved across species from grasshoppers to cockroaches and mosquitoes, and earlier experiments suggested that its function was also conserved across species,” says Christa Baker, a former postdoctoral researcher at Princeton and now an assistant professor of biology at North Carolina State University.

Mar 22, 2024

This Drug Sensor Could Detect Opioids in Other Drugs, North Carolina State University Researchers Say

Fox 8 Greensboro
Right now, five North Carolinians die per day from opioid overdoses, according to the North Carolina Department of Justice. That’s compared to 130 people per day across the U.S. “The opioid epidemic hit pretty hard,” said Juan Canoura, a post-doctoral researcher at NC State.

Mar 22, 2024

Drug Sensor Can Save Lives, Detect Opioids When Mixed With Other Substances

CBS17
“The opioid epidemic hit pretty hard,” said Juan Canoura, a post-doctoral researcher at NC State. Using color dyes and samples of drugs like fentanyl, heroin and cocaine, he and his team are working on a sensor that can detect these drugs, even when they’re mixed with other substances.

Mar 21, 2024

‘Courtship’ Gene Shows Different Effects in Two Fruit Fly Species

A gene associated with courtship behavior in fruit flies does not operate the same way in two different fruit fly species.

Mar 19, 2024

Printed Polymer Allows Researchers to Explore Chirality and Spin Interactions at Room Temperature

Nanowerk
“We know that CISS-driven charge-to-spin conversion works efficiently in chiral semiconductors, but we want to know why,” says Dali Sun, associate professor of physics, member of the Organic and Carbon Electronics Lab (ORaCEL) at North Carolina State University and co-corresponding author of the work. “And an easy way to understand the puzzling mechanics of such a process is to reverse it, that is, to look at spin-to-charge conversion via the inverse CISS effect.”

Mar 15, 2024

ChemEd Summit Envisions Interdisciplinary Future for Chemistry Students

NC State took a step toward transforming undergraduate chemical sciences education for the next-generation workforce at the ChemEd Summit.