May 28, 2013

Natural Selection in Cockroaches

Natural Selection in Cockroaches, BBC World Service, May 26, 2013. By reprogramming their taste buds, cockroaches are evolving news ways to avoid our traps. Coby Schal, entomology, featured. 

May 28, 2013

A surprising way owning a dog may be good for you

A surprising way owning a dog may be good for you, TimesOnline South Africa, May 27, 2013. A new US study from North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado shows that households with canines are home to more types of bacteria than dog-free dwellings. Rob Dunn, biology, featured. 

May 28, 2013

Cockroaches join sugar-free craze

Cockroaches join sugar-free craze, Australian Broadcast Corp., May 24, 2013. Sugar-free diets aren’t just making headlines in the human world. Cockroaches have joined the anti-sugar trend. Coby Schal, entomology, featured. 

May 28, 2013

Open-plan is bad for business

Open-plan is bad for business, iAfrica.com, may 27, 2013. Open-plan offices lead to unhealthy, unhappy and unproductive employees, new research has revealed. Psychology featured. 

May 28, 2013

Roaches evolving to evade traps, scientists say

Roaches evolving to evade traps, scientists say, Cnews Canada, May 25, 2013. A strain of cockroaches in Europe has evolved to outsmart the sugar traps used to kill them, researchers have discovered. Coby Schal, entomology, featured. 

May 28, 2013

Cockroaches mutate to beat humans’ traps by losing their taste for sugar

Cockroaches mutate to beat humans’ traps by losing their taste for sugar, Mirror UK, May 24, 2013. Nature’s ultimate survivor has just got that little bit tougher. Coby Schal, entomology, featured. 

May 28, 2013

Active hurricane season predicted

Active hurricane season predicted, WMBF Myrtle Beach, SC, May 24, 2013. The predictions are out: an above-average Atlantic hurricane season is expected. Lian Xie, MEAS, featured. 

May 28, 2013

What is in seawater? Ask a scientist

What is in seawater? Ask a scientist, N&O, May 26, 2013. Dr. Carrie Thomas is a research associate professor of marine, earth and atmospheric sciences at N.C. State. Here she explains the chemical makeup of the deep blue sea. Carrie Thomas, MEAS, featured. 

May 28, 2013

Having a Dog May Mean Having Extra Microbes

Having a Dog May Mean Having Extra Microbes, NPR, May 24, 2013. North Carolina State University biologist Rob Dunn and colleagues surveyed people’s pillow cases, refrigerators, toilet seats, TV screens and other household spots, to learn about the microbes that dwell in our homes. Rob Dunn, biology, featured. 

May 28, 2013

Researchers at UNC and NC State developing technology that could help people with diabetes

Researchers at UNC and NC State developing technology that could help people with diabetes, N&O, May 24, 2013. A nanotechnology treatment that stabilizes blood-sugar levels for up to 10 days with a single injection has performed well in early testing, heralding what could be the next major advance in the field of diabetes. Zhen Gu, biomedical… 

May 28, 2013

Bacteria found in homes with dogs may help prevent allergies

Bacteria found in homes with dogs may help prevent allergies, UPI, May 26, 2013. Households with dogs are home to more types of bacteria, including varieties rarely found in households without dogs, U.S. researchers say. Rob Dunn, biology, featured. 

May 28, 2013

Cockroaches outsmart sugar traps

Cockroaches outsmart sugar traps, Sify, May 24, 2013. Sugar isn’t always sweet to German cockroaches, a new study has found. Coby Schal, entomology, featured. 

May 28, 2013

Roaches evolve to avoid sweet-tasting poison bait, researchers say

Roaches evolve to avoid sweet-tasting poison bait, researchers say, Seattle Times – Online, NEW YORK — For decades, people have been getting rid of cockroaches by setting out bait mixed with poison. But in the late 1980s, in an apartment test kitchen in Florida, something went wrong. A killer product stopped working. Cockroach population 

May 28, 2013

Wily Cockroaches Find Another Survival Trick: Laying Off the Sweets

Wily Cockroaches Find Another Survival Trick: Laying Off the Sweets, New York Times, Everyone knows that cockroaches are the ultimate survivors, with enough evolutionary tricks up their carapaces to have thrived for 350 million years and to have completely adapted to the human species.   

May 28, 2013

These wily mutant roaches have researchers buggin

These wily mutant roaches have researchers buggin, Star-Ledger, For decades, people have been getting rid of cockroaches by setting out bait mixed with poison. But in the late 1980s, in an apartment test kitchen in Florida, something went very wrong. A killer product stopped working. Cockroach populations ther