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Jul 9, 2020

Making the Case for Slingshotting Past Venus on the Way to Mars

Phys.org
A team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, North Carolina State University and NASA, has proposed, via whitepaper, that NASA should direct its Mars-bound spacecraft to fly by Venus first.

Jun 30, 2020

Scientists Urge Business and Government to Treat PFAS Chemicals as a Class

Phys.org
“These large molecule chemicals can release smaller toxic PFAS and other hazardous substances into the environment throughout their lifecycle, from production, to use, to disposal,” said author Carol Kwiatkowski, an Adjunct Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University.

Jun 25, 2020

Teaching Physics to Neural Networks Enables Predictable Chaos?

AI Daily
Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered that teaching these neural networks Hamiltonian structure allows those networks to more comprehensively digest the mix of order and chaos that shapes our world.

Jun 22, 2020

New Study on Neural Networks Has Implications for Improved AI Applications

AZO Robotics
At North Carolina State University, researchers have found when neural networks are taught physics, they can better adapt to chaos within their environment.

Jun 22, 2020

Character, Service and Leadership: Alumni Physicians’ Experiences During the Pandemic

Biological sciences alumna Tracy Forrest, a North Carolina physician, shares her experiences in the medical field during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jun 16, 2020

New N.C. Climate Change Report Says the Time to Act Is Now

North Carolina Health News
Researchers at N.C. State University predict a high number of named storms this hurricane season — between 18 and 22 — with the possibility that three to five of them will become major hurricanes.

Jun 16, 2020

Alum Tyler Allen Reflects on His Time With Multicultural Student Affairs

Biology alumnus Tyler Allen reflects on his campus experience with Multicultural Student Affairs.

Jun 8, 2020

Special Report: Three Years of GenX, PFAS and Chemours

WUNC
Exposure testing of residents of the Cape Fear Region, and near the plant in Fayetteville, is continuing through NC State University. Dr. Jane Hoppin is leading two exposure testing efforts from her post at NC State.

Jun 2, 2020

Blood Plasma Analysis Could Spot Signs of ALS

Futurity
“Early diagnosis is important, but we are in dire need of quantitative markers for monitoring progression and the efficacy of therapeutic intervention,” says Michael Bereman, associate professor of biological sciences at North Carolina State University and corresponding author of the paper on the work in the Journal of Proteome Research.

Jun 2, 2020

Folks Ready to Talk Change: NC Climatologist

Coastal Review Online
It was not the kind of Earth Day that North Carolina State Climatologist Kathie Dello had imagined. Dello is the state’s fifth climatologist and the first woman to lead the State Climate Office, based at North Carolina State University. Before taking the job, she served as the associate director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute and the deputy director of the Oregon Climate Service.