May 22, 2012

Researchers boost efficiency of multi-hop wireless networks

Researchers boost efficiency of multi-hop wireless networks, Supercomputing Online – May 20, 2012.  Multi-hop wireless networks can provide data access for large and unconventional spaces, but they have long faced significant limits on the amount of data they can transmit. NC State researchers have developed a more efficient data transmission approach that can boost the amount… 

May 22, 2012

College of Veterinary Medicine at N.C. State researches stem cell therapy

College of Veterinary Medicine at N.C. State researches stem cell therapy, Herald-Sun – May 20, 2012.  Researchers at the College of Veterinary Medicine at N.C. State University say they’re learning more each day about stem cell therapy for animals…  Jorge Piedrahita, a leading stem cell researcher at NC State, is mentioned. 

May 22, 2012

Holly Springs Teacher receives Kenan Fellowship

Holly Springs Teacher receives Kenan Fellowship, Holly Springs Sun – May 20, 2012.  Mark Townley, Holly Springs High School science teacher, was one of eleven teachers to receive the Kenan Fellowship through the Kenan Institute at North Carolina State University. As a Kenan Fellow, Townley will spend this summer conducting research, which he will eventually present… 

May 22, 2012

Everglades becomes U.S. python pit

Everglades becomes U.S. python pit, Charlotte Observer – May, 20, 2012.  In 2009, the invasive Burmese python made its debut on national television as the new symbol of Florida…Americans are already paying more than $160 billion annually in efforts to eradicate an increasing number of invading species, with relatively little success….Georgia, South and North Carolina… 

May 22, 2012

Children in U. S. , Great Britain Share Risk Factors for Behavioral Problems

Children in U. S. , Great Britain Share Risk Factors for Behavioral Problems, ScienceDaily, Carolina Parent et al, May 20, 2012.  Children in the United States and Great Britain share a number of common risk factors that increase the likelihood that they will have behavioral problems — and Britain’s broader social welfare programs don’t appear… 

May 22, 2012

Another view: A new reality

Another view: A new reality, Laurinburg Exchange – May 20, 2012…. Both home sellers and local governments face the stark new reality of property values in the post-crash era. Even if the home market stabilizes and values begin to rise, most economists think it will take between five and 10 years for the average home to… 

May 22, 2012

Car-sized Turtle Found in Colombian Coal Mine

Car-sized Turtle Found in Colombian Coal Mine, Drudge Report, May 21, 2012. Remains of an enormous turtle, which was the size of a Smart Car, have been unearthed in a Colombian coal mine. The shell alone of the 60-million-year-old turtle, Carbonemys cofrinii, aka “coal turtle,” is large enough to be a small swimming pool. Its skull… 

May 21, 2012

Fossil of giant turtle found in Colombia

Fossil of giant turtle found in Colombia, Intrepid Report; also UPI.com; Bio-Medicince, AsiaOne, Jakarta Post – May 18, 2012.  Paleontologists say they’ve found fossilized remains of an ancient turtle with a shell the size of a small car that lived 60 million years ago in South America. Dan Ksepka, an NCSU paleontologist and a research associate… 

May 21, 2012

UPI NewsTrack Science and Technology News

UPI NewsTrack Science and Technology News, TMCnet.com; also Individual.com, May 17, 2012.  Paleontologists say they’ve found fossilized remains of an ancient turtle with a shell the size of a small car that lived 60 million years ago in South America. Dubbed Carbonemys cofrinii, or “coal turtle,” the fossil was discovered in a coal mine in Colombia,… 

May 21, 2012

Scientists discover huge pre-historic turtle fossil

Scientists discover huge pre-historic turtle fossil, Calgary Herald – May 18, 2012.  A team of paleontologists including scientists from North Carolina State University has discovered the fossil remains of a new species of dining table-size freshwater turtle that apparently lived side-by-side with the 15-metre snakes and super-size crocodiles that they had found earlier in the… 

May 21, 2012

Researchers improve fast-moving mobile networks

Researchers improve fast-moving mobile networks, R&D Magazine Online; also SpaceDaily, TMCnet, BioPortfolio, Cellular News, Product Design & Development, Homeland Security Newswire – May 21, 2012.  Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) allow people in multiple, rapidly moving vehicles to communicate with each other—such as in military or emergency-response situations. Researchers from North Carolina State University have… 

May 21, 2012

Car-Sized Giant Turtle Discovered in Colombia Ate Alligators for Breakfast

Car-Sized Giant Turtle Discovered in Colombia Ate Alligators for Breakfast, Slate, May 18, 2012.  The Paleocene era would have been a terrible time to own a pet turtle, unless you had a garage to park it in. Paleontologists have discovered a car-sized turtle in a Colombian coalmine that may have eaten alligators and ruled a large swath… 

May 21, 2012

Jim Hunt crowd gets together

Jim Hunt crowd gets together, News & Observer – May 21, 2012. The old Jim Hunt crowd got together Friday to celebrate the 75th birthday of the four-term governor and to present a check for his personal office at the new Hunt Library on the Centennial Campus. A check for $146,000 was presented to Hunt to help… 

May 21, 2012

NCSU professor talks changing accents on ‘CBS This Morning’

NCSU professor talks changing accents on ‘CBS This Morning’, News & Observer, May 21, 2012.  “CBS This Morning” correspondent Mo Rocca visited North Carolina recently to film a report on homogenizing American accents. Walt Wolfram, English, featured. 

May 21, 2012

Android Botnet Exploits Gingerbread Root Access

Android Botnet Exploits Gingerbread Root Access, InformationWeek, May 20, 2012.  The mobile malware state of the art continues to improve, as demonstrated by the emergence of a new Android threat that’s been dubbed RootSmart. Xuxian Jiang, computer science, featured.