Mar 24, 2023 CBS17

Fact check: Is it worth it to keep NC’s corporate income tax where it is?

So that leads leads to a bigger question: In terms of the budget, is that $72 million even a significant amount of money in the first place? “Not at all,” said Nathan Goldman, a tax expert and associate professor in North Carolina State University’s Poole College of Management. “If you go and look at the… 

Mar 24, 2023 AgDaily

NC State study: Cover crops help mitigate farmer losses after flooding

“Our study suggests that counties with higher cover-crop adoption rates tend to have smaller prevented-planting losses,” said Roderick M. Rejesus, professor and extension specialist in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at NC State and corresponding author of a paper describing the study. “Our results are consistent with the notion that planting cover crops can… 

Mar 24, 2023 Phys.org

Drought, heat waves found to worsen West Coast air pollution inequality

“We have known that air pollution disproportionally impacts communities of color, the poor and communities that are already more likely to be impacted by other sources of environmental pollution,” said the study’s lead author Jordan Kern, assistant professor of forestry and environmental resources at NC State. “What we know now is that drought and heat waves… 

Mar 24, 2023 Oregon Chronicle

Chicken industry officials host tour of mega chicken facility as part of a lobbying effort

It’s also a hot-button issue. Chickens produce ammonia and nitrogen that have polluted waterways in other states. In 2020, a team of scientists at North Carolina State University concluded that poultry operations contributed significantly to nitrogen pollution in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, a major hub for broiler chicken growers. 

Mar 23, 2023 WNCT

Fact check: Is it worth it to keep NC’s corporate income tax where it is?

So that leads leads to a bigger question: In terms of the budget, is that $72 million even a significant amount of money in the first place? “Not at all,” said Nathan Goldman, a tax expert and associate professor in North Carolina State University’s Poole College of Management. “If you go and look at the… 

Mar 23, 2023 CoastalReview.org

Groups fund NC butterfly conservation, coastal restoration

The funding announced Wednesday will combine scientific research and conservation activities to learn from and protect Earth’s biodiversity. It includes grants to North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Aquariums to conserve the crystal skipper butterfly in a coastal urban environment. 

Mar 23, 2023 AZO Robotics

New Caterpillar-Like Soft Robot Develops a Method for Locomotion

A caterpillar’s movement is controlled by local curvature of its body—its body curves differently when it pulls itself forward than it does when it pushes itself backward. We’ve drawn inspiration from the caterpillar’s biomechanics to mimic that local curvature, and use nanowire heaters to control similar curvature and movement in the caterpillar-bot, said Yong Zhu,… 

Mar 23, 2023 Advanced Science News

A soft robotic hand takes a two pronged approach to grasping

In an article recently published in the journal Advanced Intelligent Systems, researchers from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, North Carolina State University, and the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo have sought to build a new soft gripper that can grasp a diverse range of items by combining two different physical principles: granular jamming and… 

Mar 22, 2023 Scientific American

Spring Is Starting Earlier—It’s Not Your Imagination

If insects emerge early because of warming temperatures, their numbers could also peak before the birds that munch on them arrive or before the birds’ chicks hatch. Tingley’s research suggests some birds are advancing their migrations with warming but only at around half of the rate at which plants are now emerging in spring. And… 

Mar 22, 2023 Futurity

Enzymes Split Cotton From Polyester In Fabric Blends

“We can separate all of the cotton out of a cotton-polyester blend, meaning now we have clean polyester that can be recycled,” says corresponding author of the study Sonja Salmon, associate professor of textile engineering, chemistry, and science at North Carolina State University. “In a landfill, the polyester is not going to degrade, and the… 

Mar 22, 2023 Tech Xplore

Study highlights complicated relationship between AI and law enforcement

“Law enforcement agencies have a crucial role to play in implementing public policies related to AI technologies,” says Veljko Dubljević, corresponding author of the study and an associate professor of science, technology and society at North Carolina State University. 

Mar 22, 2023 Phys.org

Cover crops can help mitigate farmer losses

A North Carolina State University study suggests that cover crops—or crops grown in between cash-crop seasons—can help keep Midwestern soil drier and healthier, thereby preventing losses incurred when farmers can’t plant cash crops because of flooding or excessive soil moisture. 

Mar 21, 2023 Eco Textile

Scientists separate fabric blends with enzymes Premium Article

Researchers at North Carolina State University say they have separated blended cotton and polyester using enzymes in a potential breakthrough which they hope could increase recycling and reduce textile waste.However, the process needed more steps if the blended fabric was dyed or treated with chemicals to increase wrinkle resistance, according to a study published in… 

Mar 21, 2023 FBI

FBI, Department of Energy, NC State University Partner for Field Training Exercise

“Curieus Disintegration” trains federal, state, and local law enforcement, hazardous materials personnel, and hazardous device professionals to prepare for crisis response to critical incidents with nuclear and radiological material. More than 500 people, representing 20 state and local agencies, and four federal agencies attended. Each day began with classroom instruction on radiological materials, detection capabilities,… 

Mar 21, 2023 The Guardian

‘I cried for a long time’: Black hair stylist’s dream crushed by racist neighbor

Rowan county, which is 79% white and 17% Black, is a “sundown town”, a Jim Crow era term used to reference overwhelmingly white neighborhoods known for racial segregation. Katherine Mellen Charron, a history professor at North Carolina State University, said sundown areas remain prevalent in places like Rowan county to limit homeownership from Black Americans.…