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NC State news is shared far and wide. Below are just some of our recent appearances in local, regional, national and international media publications.

Jul 10, 2025 Penn Live

Are fireflies at risk? Here’s how the weather has affected them in Pa.

Earlier this year, entomologists at North Carolina State University and Virginia Tech have observed that some species of the bioluminescent insects are dwindling, for a variety of reasons. 

Jul 10, 2025 WCIV

Scientists warn climate change is fueling more frequent, intense flash floods nationwide

“During Helene, they talked a lot about it being a once-in-a-thousand-year event or more,” Carl Schreck, senior research scholar with NCSU and NC Institute for Climate Studies, told News 13. According to Climate Central, rainfall rates today are now 15% higher than in 1970. “That’s not taking into account climate change, where these events are… 

Jul 10, 2025 NPR

Zohran Mamdani & the politics of “good” vs. “bad” Muslims

Why is Islamophobia politically salient today, and why are both sides of the aisle using it to achieve their own political goals? To answer this, Brittany is joined by Tazeen Ali, a professor of religion and politics at Washington University, and Nathan Lean, professor of religion at North Carolina State University. 

Jul 10, 2025 The New York Times

How small provision added to Donald Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ affects taxes for sports bettors

“It’s going to be disastrous for them,” Nathan Goldman, CPA and tax professor at North Carolina State University, told The Athletic. “It’s going to devastate the Nevada economy. The professional gamblers bring a lot to that economy.” 

Jul 9, 2025 Science Daily

Ice in a million-degree Fermi bubble reveals the Milky Way’s recent eruption

“The Fermi bubbles are enormous structures of hot gas that extend above and below the disk of the Milky Way, reaching about 25,000 light years in each direction from the galaxy’s center — spanning a total height of 50,000 light years,” says Rongmon Bordoloi, associate professor of physics at North Carolina State University and corresponding… 

Jul 9, 2025 Texarkana Gazette/Associated Press

Intense downpours like those in Texas are more frequent, but there’s no telling where they’ll happen

“It’s just loading the dice toward heavy rainfall when the situation is right,” said Kenneth Kunkel, a climate scientist at North Carolina State University. “This month was the Texas Hill Country’s turn to get hit. Last fall … in western North Carolina, it was our turn,” Kunkel said, adding that just because an area was… 

Jul 9, 2025 Newsweek

America Could Get Its First New National Park in Years: What to Know

Lincoln R. Larson, a professor in the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management at North Carolina State University, told Newsweek: “National Park status affords a greater productive status than National Monument status, and given the Trump Administration’s stated to desire to shrink public lands and reduce protections bestowed on them for drilling, development, and… 

Jul 8, 2025 Modern Poultry

Housing type affects Salmonella incidence in organs of laying hens

A joint research study conducted by the USDA and North Carolina State University researchers demonstrated that housing type — conventional or enriched — can influence levels of human pathogenic Salmonella in the organs of laying hens, with housing in conventional cages resulting in higher frequencies of Salmonella in the birds’ livers, spleens, ovaries and oviducts. 

Jul 8, 2025 CNN

The hidden physical powers that help women outlive men

At North Carolina State University, a team led by microbial ecologist Erin McKenney and forensic anthropologist Amanda Hale conducted a landmark study measuring the lengths of the small intestines in cadavers for the first time since 1885. The team discovered that women’s small intestines were significantly longer than men’s — an advantage that allows women… 

Jul 8, 2025 Inside Climate News

Chantal Wrecks Havoc in North Carolina as State Lawmakers Try to Repeal an Ambitious Climate Change Goal

An analysis written by three N.C. State University environmental engineering professors contradicts that figure. They estimated removing the interim target would not reduce power bills, but instead could cost ratepayers up to $23 billion in added fuel expenses over the same time. 

Jul 8, 2025 EdNC

Allison Pratt’s mission to bring science home

At just 17 years old, Allison Pratt is already charting a bold course in science, service, and scholarship. A graduate of SandHoke Early College High School — Summa Cum Laude, with an associate in arts degree — Allison will enter North Carolina State University in fall 2025 as a junior, majoring in biological sciences with… 

Jul 8, 2025 The AI Insider

NC State Researchers Expose AI Vision Weaknesses With RisingAttacK Tool

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for deceiving AI vision systems, revealing vulnerabilities that could affect the safety of self-driving cars, medical diagnostics, and security applications. The method, called RisingAttacK, funded by grants from the National Science Foundation the Army Research Office, was tested against the four most widely used… 

Jul 8, 2025 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Kenneth Zagacki and Richard Cherwitz: The world would be safer if Donald Trump talked like John F. Kennedy

A president’s words once mattered so much that they were meticulously chosen, and the policies carefully vetted. President John F. Kennedy’s October 22, 1962, Cuban Missile Crisis televised address to the nation is a model for the way a president should speak. – Authors: Kenneth Zagacki is a professor of communication at North Carolina State University.… 

Jul 8, 2025 National Science Foundation

Galactic Mystery: How “Ice Cubes” Survive in the Milky Way’s Blazing Bubbles

“These findings change our previous assumptions, showing that cold gas can persist in the hot, turbulent Fermi Bubbles,” explained Rongmon Bordoloi, the lead scientist of this research and an associate professor North Carolina State University, “We didn’t know that cold gas can survive in these extreme outflows. This challenges our understanding of how galaxies recycle… 

Jul 7, 2025 WRAL

They’re NC’s fastest-growing source of new teachers. But thousands of them are leaving every year

State law doesn’t allow for exceptions to GPA requirements, even if the degree was earned decades before — and even though one can earn a degree with a lower GPA. Allison Winzeler, director of Pathways to Practice, an educator preparation program that’s a partnership between North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina…