sciences

Feb 11, 2025

Age, Burial Environment Don’t Hinder Soft Tissue Preservation in Dinosaurs

Soft tissue preservation in fossils does not seem to depend upon the species, age or burial environment of the fossils.

Feb 6, 2025

Road Trips, Mountains and a Whole Lot of Data: An NC State Senior’s Internship With the State Climate Office

NC State University senior Jack Kendrick spent last summer studying mountain inversions as an ECONet Summer Undergraduate Student Intern.

Feb 4, 2025

Supporting Sciences Students, Right Where They Are

Nicole Johnson, the College of Sciences' new embedded counselor, is ready to support students on their personal and academic journeys.  

Jan 23, 2025

A Praying Mantis, Beetles and Other Insects Take Off in Slow Motion

The Kid Should See This
The insects are temporarily captured and filmed by research biologist Adrian Smith, head of the Evolutionary Biology and Behavior Lab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and an assistant research professor at NC State.

Jan 17, 2025

Indonesian BMKG Delegation Visits NC State to Strengthen Collaboration on Graduate Education

A delegation from the Indonesian Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysical Agency visited with faculty and administrators at NC State.

Jan 14, 2025

Share Your Research Photos and Images With Us!

Share your images of research being done at NC State.

Jan 8, 2025

NIEHS Awards Environmental Epidemiologist Hoppin $1.9 Million to Enhance GenX Exposure Study

The grant will help enhance the community engagement component of the study.

Jan 8, 2025

Scorching Climate Drove Lampreys Apart During Cretaceous Period

One of the hottest periods in Earth’s history may have driven lampreys apart – genetically speaking.

Jan 6, 2025

Xeuss 3.0: NC State’s New X-ray Instrument

The Organic and Carbon Electronics Laboratories’ new X-ray instrument will help researchers at NC State and beyond improve products ranging from electronics to textiles.

Aug 27, 2019

Nuking Hurricanes Out of the Sky ‘Doesn’t Make Sense at All’

Popular Science
Since the dawn of nuclear explosives, citizens and scientists alike have speculated that the government might be able to repurpose weapons of war as weapons of weather. Most recently, President Donald Trump asked why we couldn’t just nuke hurricanes out of the sky. Meteorologists are wincing at the reappearance of this all-too-familiar myth. “It is a spectacularly bad idea,” says Gary Lackmann, a meteorologist and professor at North Carolina State University’s department of marine, earth and atmospheric sciences.