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Oct 18, 2023

Mimicking a Bird’s Sticky Spit to Create Cellulose Gels

NC State researchers developed a nontoxic process for making cellulose gels using a small bird’s nest-making process as a model.

Oct 10, 2023

How Does Constant Evolution Keep Species Stable?

Biologist Brian Langerhans talks about a new study that could offer answers to evolution’s “stasis paradox.”

Oct 8, 2023

Consistent Metabolism May Prove Costly for Insects in Saltier Water

Metabolism could explain why some freshwater insects struggle in saltier water.

Aug 31, 2023

An ‘Introspective’ AI Finds Diversity Improves Performance

William Ditto, professor of physics, helped create an AI that can fine tune its own neural network. Researchers found the AI performs better when it chooses diversity over lack of diversity.

Aug 21, 2023

Did Sabertooth Tigers Purr or Roar?

The sound a sabertooth made could depend on the shape of a few small bones.

Aug 1, 2023

Why You Shouldn’t Declaw Tigers or Other Big Cats

Declawing big cats is worse for them in terms of muscular effects than for smaller species.

Jul 20, 2023

Creating a Clearer Picture of Interplay Between a Molecule’s Electrons and Nuclei

Felix Castellano, Goodnight Distinguished Innovation Chair of Chemistry at NC State, was part of a team that recently released groundbreaking results concerning the relationship between the spin-vibronic effect and intersystem crossing in molecules.

Jun 26, 2023

Where Do New Galaxies Come From?

Astrophysicist Rongmon Bordoloi discusses primordial gasses and how galaxies are born.

Jun 21, 2023

PFAS Found in Blood of Dogs, Horses Living Near Fayetteville, N.C.

NC State researchers found PFAS in the blood of pet dogs and horses from Gray’s Creek, North Carolina.

Jun 7, 2023

New Dino, ‘Iani,’ Was Face of a Changing Planet

A newly discovered plant-eating dinosaur may have been a species’ “last gasp.”