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Sep 10, 2026

NC State Receives $20 Million Grant to Develop New AI-Enabled Learning Technologies

The five-year award from the National Science Foundation supports research on AI tools that can generate interactive narratives effective at engaging K-12 students and improving learning.
illustration shows cross section of two cars undergoing a collision; passengers in the car with metal foam front rails experience less impact than in the car with conventional front rails

Sep 3, 2026

Study Suggests Metal Foam Would Make Cars Safer in Collisions

In computer simulations, researchers found that incorporating metal foam into automobile “front rails” allow them to absorb more energy during high-velocity impacts.
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.
photo shows seven undergraduates interacting with each other and looking at a computer screen

Aug 26, 2026

New Tool Uses AI to Help Undergraduates Think Critically About Research

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has developed and demonstrated a step-by-step framework called Socratic Challenger that uses artificial intelligence to help undergraduate students cultivate critical thinking skills. Specifically, the framework uses AI as a collaborator to develop research questions that can be pursued in laboratory or classroom settings.
three young people stand in front of a solid state transformer, which resembles a large metal rectangle covered in black electrical ports

Aug 18, 2026

NC State, New York Power Authority and EPRI Demonstrate Solid State Transformer Success Under Real World Conditions

The demonstration underscores the technology’s potential to improve energy efficiency, losing half as much power as conventional transformers.
aerial view of NC State's Wilson College of Textiles

Aug 17, 2026

NC State to Spearhead 10-Year, $480 Million Effort to Bolster Defense Textile Manufacturing

The FutureTEX initiative will work with American manufacturing to capitalize on digital infrastructure and other emerging technologies to make the domestic supply network more robust for the defense industrial base.
three older adults wearing colorful jackets walk arm in arm down a city street

Aug 10, 2026

Study Sees Links Between Ageist Attitudes and Memory Problems

An international study finds that older adults who have strong beliefs about how other seniors should behave also report having more memory problems themselves.
an aerial view of dozens of tractor trailers parked at a distribution center

Aug 3, 2026

A Public Health Challenge Has Led to a More Efficient Way to Allocate All Sorts of Resources

Researchers have demonstrated a way to drastically reduce the computing power needed to run large-scale optimization models while still producing near-optimal results.
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Aug 3, 2026

NC State to Lead Three Department of Energy Genesis Mission Projects

NC State will lead three Genesis Mission projects using AI to expedite discovery in the fields of high-performance computing, cybersecurity and astrophysics.
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.
an aerial photograph shows the wilson college of textiles at north carolina state university

Jul 14, 2026

NSF Support Bolsters Textile Innovation, NC State Research

NSF has renewed its commitment to innovation in the textiles sector, providing $16 million in funding for a research initiative that supports more than a dozen projects led by NC State University researchers.
illustration shows the double-helix construction of DNA in bright blue against a black backdrop

Jul 14, 2026

Scientists Are Getting Better at Predicting Which DNA Sequences Bind to Each Other. AI is Helping.

A better understanding of these DNA-DNA binding relationships has utility in applications ranging from biomedical diagnostic tools to DNA computing.
a pokeweed growing green, unripe and poisonous berries

Jul 9, 2026

Mining Rare Earth Elements with Plants

The United States is looking to boost domestic mining of rare earth elements to secure greater control over pricing and manufacturing of essential technologies we rely on. To that end, the U.S. Department of Energy is backing NC State University's interdisciplinary research for optimizing phytomining — the process of extracting valuable minerals using plants.
a computer screen shows a range of numbers related to the stock market

Jul 7, 2026

Study Finds Sharing Tax Numbers Boosts Transparency, Not Confusion, for Investors

A new study finds disclosing more tax-related numbers allows the market to make more informed investing decisions.