Creating Safe, Secure and Intelligent Systems

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Feb 23, 2026

Study Finds Online Racism Associated With Black Young Adults Seeking Mental Health Support

Black young adults who experience high levels of online racism are also more likely to use digital mental health tools.

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Feb 18, 2026

Engineered Materials Can Self-Heal and Last Centuries

Researchers at NC State University created a system that enables engineered composites to self-heal, similar to the regenerative abilities found in organic materials like bone and wood. Recently they demonstrated that this technique effectively mends cracks in aerospace and wind turbine materials — maintaining its efficacy over 1,000 healing cycles.

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Feb 5, 2026

Protecting the IP of AI Systems

Researchers have developed the first-ever defense mechanism against attacks that aim to steal the proprietary parameters of neural network-based AI systems.

Feb 5, 2026

NC State Research, Collaboration Bolster Nation’s Defense

New initiatives, partnerships will accelerate defense and security research.

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Jan 6, 2026

How to Make Communities More Resilient to Climate Change

A new strategy lays out how local governments can limit adverse impacts of climate change on their communities.

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Jan 5, 2026

Location, Location, Location: Model IDs Best Spots for Offshore Energy Projects

The model can be used to maximize offshore energy production, reducing the financial risk of offshore projects.

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Nov 20, 2025

How Modified Robotic Prosthetics Could Help Address Hip, Back Problems for Amputees

The new approach can help address health challenges associated with an amputation.

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Nov 19, 2025

How a New Modeling Method Could Make Energy Systems More Efficient – Even in an Uncertain Future

The new method helps policymakers determine which parts of an energy system have the biggest impact and merit extra attention.

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Nov 17, 2025

Researchers Unveil First-Ever Defense Against Cryptanalytic Attacks on AI

Security researchers have developed the first functional defense mechanism capable of protecting against “cryptanalytic” attacks used to “steal” the model parameters that define how an AI system works.

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Oct 20, 2025

How to Make ‘Smart City’ Technologies Behave Ethically

New approach allows policymakers and technology developers to better align the values programmed into smart city technologies with the ethics of the people who will be interacting with them.

A crawling robot made with the Miura-Ori origami pattern. The dark areas are covered with a magnetic rubber film, which allows the robot to move.

Oct 17, 2025

How origami robots with magnetic muscles could make medicine delivery less invasive and more effective

A new 3-D printing technique can create paper-thin “magnetic muscles,” which can be applied to origami structures to make them move. By infusing rubber-like elastomers with materials called ferromagnetic particles, researchers at North Carolina State University 3-D printed a thin magnetic film which can be applied to origami structures. When exposed to magnetism, the films…

Oct 13, 2025

Improved Cough-Detection Tech Can Help With Health Monitoring

The advance makes it easier to monitor chronic health conditions and predict health risks such as asthma attacks.

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Oct 9, 2025

Rising to a New Challenge

AI presents entirely new challenges to cybersecurity. New research from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering could help protect AI vision systems from hacks that distort what they see.

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Oct 8, 2025

Hardware Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Hack AI Training Data

Researchers have identified the first vulnerability that allows attackers to compromise the data privacy of AI users by exploiting the physical hardware on which AI is run.

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Oct 7, 2025

Engineers Develop Solid Lubricant to Replace Toxic Materials in Farming

Farm equipment used to plant seeds relies on solid lubricants, but existing solid lubricants pose toxicity concerns. Researchers have created a new lubricant that works better and is nontoxic.