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Oct 29, 2019

Opportunities Adding Up

NC State senior Yussef Guerrab hopes to blend interests in math, statistics, education and public policy into a career helping others.

Oct 29, 2019

Forecast: High Probability of Success

As a child, Clay Chaney loved watching meteorologists. Now, thanks to his opportunity to attend NC State, he is one himself.

Oct 25, 2019

A Lemur From Madagascar Has Been Hiding a Sixth Finger on Its Hand

CBC Radio
"[It's] more than just a little nub. There's bone; there's cartilage. When we looked carefully at it, we noticed there's even a fingerprint", Adam Hartstone-Rose told Quirks & Quarks.

Oct 22, 2019

This Bizarre Primate Has a Newly Discovered Digit

National Geographic
The aye-aye of Madagascar has a pseudo-thumb that may help it grip trees, showing there’s still much to be learned about anatomy.

Oct 22, 2019

Add ‘Pseudo-Thumb’ to the Aye-Aye Lemur’s Bizarre Anatomy

New York Times
“We’ve studied the function of those weird, spindly middle fingers so long that nobody ever looked at this kind of lowly structure on the wrist,” said Adam Hartstone-Rose, an anatomist at North Carolina State University who led the team that completed the research.

Oct 15, 2019

Was Hazel North Carolina’s Worst-Case Hurricane?

No discussion about North Carolina's significant historical hurricanes is complete without including Hazel, which hit the state 65 years ago today.

Oct 4, 2019

Why Just Being in the Habitable Zone Doesn’t Make Exoplanets Livable

Science News
“The habitable zone is not the exclusive place where life might be,” says planetary geologist Paul Byrne of North Carolina State University in Raleigh. “Those nuances are hardly ever conveyed when it’s utilized as a place to look for life.”

Sep 27, 2019

NASA Mars Mission Shocker: New Discovery on Red Planet Surprises Scientists

International Business Times
“We’re getting an insight into Mars’s magnetic history in a way we’ve never had before,” Paul Byrne, a planetary geologist at North Carolina State University who heard about the study, commented on the discovery.

Sep 23, 2019

For Duke Energy, No Shelter From Hugo’s Storm

Thirty years ago, Hurricane Hugo tested nearly every aspect of infrastructure in the Carolinas.

Sep 23, 2019

How Howling Hugo Became the Western Piedmont’s Worst Hurricane

The N.C. Climate Office examines the monster 1989 storm's inland impact.