Feb 20, 2019 The Atlantic

Is the Insect Apocalypse Really Upon Us?

First, some good news: The claim that insects will all be annihilated within the century is absurd. Almost everyone I spoke with says that it’s not even plausible, let alone probable. “Not going to happen,” says Elsa Youngsteadt from North Carolina State University. 

Feb 20, 2019 Science News for Students

Friendly adults help teens stand up against bullies

Kelly Lynn Mulvey studies developmental psychology — how the mind develops and how people behave — at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. She describes bullying as “repeated forms of aggression.” It also tends to reflect “a power imbalance” between the bully and the victim.  

Feb 19, 2019 North Carolina News Network

BCBSNC Launches Diabetes Initiative

The Diabetes Free NC initiative is a collaboration between North Carolina Division of Public Health and NC State University. The initiative supports Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recognized diabetes prevention programs across the state that provide a comprehensive, evidence-based curriculum promoting the adoption of healthier diets and increased levels of physical activity to prevent… 

Feb 19, 2019 Design News

3D-Printed Soft Robots Can Be Remotely Controlled

A team at North Carolina State University (NC State) developed the structures, which they can control with applied magnetic fields while floating on water, they said in a news release. The structures can grab small objects and carry water droplets, making them potentially useful soft robots that mimic creatures living on water surfaces, as well as… 

Feb 19, 2019 Interesting Engineering

Check This Interactive Map to See How Climate Change Will Affect Your Town

Matt Fitzpatrick from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and Robert R. Dunn from the Department of Applied Ecology at North Carolina State University Campus have built an interactive map that illustrates just what global warming will do to towns in the United States and Canada. 

Feb 19, 2019 EurekAlert!

Exotic spiraling electrons discovered by physicists

Professor Dmitrii Maslov and graduate student Adamya Goyal at the University of Florida and principal investigator Alexander Kemper at North Carolina State University contributed to theory development and the interpretation of results. 

Feb 18, 2019 WRAL Tech Wire

Mike Walden: A question for millennials, rest of us – can we fix Social Security?

My wife is not an economist, but she does sometimes ask me about economic issues. One of her most frequent questions is about Social Security. Although she is retired and eligible to receive Social Security benefits, on my advice she has delayed until her monthly payment will be much higher in a couple of years.… 

Feb 18, 2019 Science X

Best of Last Week – NASA heading back to moon, climate shift in North America and impact of processed food on health

In Earth news, Matthew Fitzpatrick with the University of Maryland and Robert Dunn with North Carolina State University claimed that the climate of North American cities will shift hundreds of miles in one generation—children alive today could see local temperatures become more like locations very far south of them today. 

Feb 18, 2019 The Charlotte Observer

Hurricane Florence killed millions of chickens and turkeys. Now farmers are putting them to use.

The concept of composting dead farm animals is not new. Mark J. Rice, an extension specialist with N.C. State University, said extension agents demonstrated the benefits of composting back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when farmers were worried about the cost of incineration or rendering.  

Feb 18, 2019 The News and Observer

North Carolina could feel like Florida or Mexico in a generation, researchers say

North Carolina will likely feel like the Florida Panhandle or possibly like northern Mexico within a generation, according to a new interactive climate change map developed by researchers at the University of Maryland and North Carolina State University. 

Feb 15, 2019 Business Insider

A troubling new map shows what your city’s climate may look like in 60 years. San Francisco may feel like Los Angeles, and New York may be more like Arkansas.

According to Fitzpatrick and his coauthor, Robert Dunn, an ecology professor at North Carolina State University, urban areas are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change because of cities’ large and growing populations, and their reliance on interconnected and (in some cases) aging infrastructure. 

Feb 15, 2019 WNCN

Magnetic north pole moving, which means updates to nav and mapping systems

Dr. Paul Byrne of North Carolina State University says, “it’s the change in speed of the rotation of the different parts of the outer core, that means the movement of the magnetic north pole is not the same speed through time.” 

Feb 15, 2019 Smithsonian.com

With Climate Change, Washington, D.C. Will Feel More Like Arkansas by 2080

The point of the paper is to try and get people to think about how climate change may affect them. Fitzpatrick and his co-author Robert R. Dunn, an applied ecologist at North Carolina State University, write: “Translating and communicating these abstract predictions in terms of present-day, local, and concrete personal experiences may help overcome some… 

Feb 15, 2019 PolitiFact

Would Medicaid expansion bring 40,000 jobs to North Carolina, as state House Democrat says?

Michael Walden, professor of economics at North Carolina State University, said that money would turn into spending and jobs both in and outside the medical industry. 

Feb 14, 2019 Miami Herald

New map reveals how global warming could transform your city’s climate in 60 years

Maryland and North Carolina State University researchers said they hope the map will give people a better way to conceive of what might be inconceivable: How greatly the climate in today’s cities could transform in just decades if planet-warming emissions aren’t reduced.