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NC State faculty and staff can stay tuned between issues of our weekly Bulletin newsletter with news and notes from around campus.

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Sep 8, 2026

New Method Estimates Sea Surface Temps Quickly and Accurately

A new method for extrapolating sea surface temperatures from sparse data is significantly more accurate than other commonly used computational methods.
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Sep 8, 2026

GenX Exposure Study Receives Funding to Look at Effects of PFAS on Metabolic, Long-Term Health

The GenX Exposure study has received funding to continue studying the health effects of long-term exposure to PFAS and PFEAs.
tank being loaded onto transport ship

Aug 27, 2026

Cracking the Packing Code – New Models Incorporate Item Priority, Location and Weight Distribution

New packing models optimize spatial usage while including item priority, location and weight distribution.
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Aug 12, 2026

AI-Enabled Stethoscope Can Miss the Beat in Pets

Fourth-year veterinary students matched – and experienced clinicians outperformed – an AI-enabled digital stethoscope in diagnosing heart murmurs and arrhythmias in cats and dogs.
campus gateway

Aug 5, 2026

Researchers Use Electric Field to Reverse Phonon Chirality in Ferroelectric Crystal

Researchers used an electric field to switch the chirality of phonons within a ferroelectric crystal.

Solar array on the roof of the Keystone Science Center on Centennial Campus

Aug 3, 2026

Researchers Improve Day-Ahead Solar Forecasting for Energy Sector by Up To 13%

Researchers have demonstrated techniques that can improve day-ahead solar forecasts by up to 13% over the most consistently performing individual model.

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Jul 27, 2026

Plasmids, Horizontal Gene Transfer and Antimicrobial Resistance

The Abstract sat down with Siddhartha Thakur and Daniel Monte, to talk about what plasmids are doing and what – if anything – we can do to stop them.
mare and foal in field

Jul 27, 2026

Researchers Identify Useful Tool for Diagnosing Endocrine Dysfunction in Sick Foals

An arginine vasopressin stimulation (AVP) test offers a reliable way to test the endocrine function of sick foals. The work could lead to faster identification, treatment and improved survival rates for foals with hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal gland axis (HPAA) dysfunction.
Wearable, multimodal sensor that detects gaseous, aerosolized, and aqueous environmental toxins and alerts the wearer via unique haptic feedback codes.

Jul 24, 2026

Wearable Patch Vibrates When It Detects Environmental Hazards

A wearable patch can detect environmental hazards and notify wearers by vibrating against their skin.
SPEED’s robots coordinating AI-driven synthesis and characterization of small molecules

Jul 22, 2026

NC State To Lead National Effort To Accelerate Chemistry, Materials Research

North Carolina State University has been awarded a four-year, $20 million award from the National Science Foundation to leverage advances in artificial intelligence, robotics and autonomous labs to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery in chemistry and materials science.
a mosquito rests on someone's skin

Jul 17, 2026

Backyard Mosquito Sprays May Be Fueling Insecticide Resistance

The choices people make to control mosquitoes in their own backyards may be helping some of those mosquitoes survive the very insecticides meant to kill them.
Battery being stretched while lighting up a tiny NCSU sign

Jul 1, 2026

Researchers Create Moisture-Driven Tech That Powers Green Batteries – and Dissolves Spy Gear

A non-toxic, stretchable battery operates by extracting moisture from the ambient environment – even in climates as dry as the desert.

Spirostomum ambiguum

Jun 26, 2026

This Tiny Organism Contracts 200 Times Faster Than We Can Blink. Here’s How.

A tiny, single-celled organism's superfast contraction could lead to faster artificial muscles.
hand holding test tube with blood sample

Jun 18, 2026

Researchers Find Rare Mutation Doesn’t Always Result in Blood Cancer

A genetic mutation associated with a rare group of blood cancers does not always result in development of the disease.
Delftia culture

Jun 3, 2026

Tiny Microbe, Huge Potential – Why Scientists are Studying a Microbe They Found in a Sink

Scientists commonly use bacteria as tiny factories that can produce molecules for uses ranging from drug development to pollution remediation.