Apr 3, 2018 Commercial Property Executive

NC State’s Gregg Museum Designed for Gold-Rated Sustainability

North Carolina State University’s Gregg Museum of Art & Design has earned another LEED certification, to the Gold level, for the 15,850-square-foot new gallery wing designed by Perkins + Will. The award marks the third university building to earn the LEED Gold certification. 

Apr 3, 2018 Outer Banks Voice

Citizen science program needs your help watching the weather

“Monitoring weather and climate conditions in North Carolina is no easy feat,” said Heather Dinon Aldridge, assistant state climatologist and interim assistant director of the State Climate Office, based at North Carolina State University. “CoCoRaHS volunteers help by painting a better picture of precipitation patterns across North Carolina, filling in data gaps where there are… 

Apr 3, 2018 Engineering.com

Metal Foam Could Better Protect Soldiers Against Blast Pressure, Fragmentation

High explosive incendiary rounds are designed to unleash a deadly combination of metal fragments and blast pressure upon detonation. For the soldiers inside vehicles targeted by these lethal rounds, this means a high risk of bodily harm, brain trauma, or worse. Researchers from North Carolina State University and the U.S. Army’s Aviation Applied Technology Directorate… 

Apr 3, 2018 iNews (UK)

Groundbreaking GPS tracking reveals how animals are becoming trapped by humans

Advances in animal tracking show that more creatures are seeing their migration routes constricted as human development encroaches on them, according to a global animal movement study published in Nature. “The GPS revolution means that researchers need a way to store and interact with larger and larger sets of animal tracking data, and Movebank is… 

Apr 2, 2018 BBC News

“No Bagged Salads”: Top Tips to Avoid Food Poisoning

600 million people across the world fall ill after eating contaminated food according to the World Health Organisation. So what is the best way to avoid getting food poisoning? Lee-Ann Jaykus, a food microbiologist at North Carolina State University in the US, and Bill Marler a lawyer from Marler Clark in Seattle who’s been litigating… 

Apr 2, 2018 AgriView

Researchers wrangle with ripening

Having more precise control over tomato ripening is the goal of scientists at North Carolina State University. Their study of which genes are regulated at the translational level could move them closer to that goal. “We could have a better way to regulate activity of various ripening factors – such as those responsible for color,… 

Apr 2, 2018 citybizlist

NC State and Perkins+Will Achieve LEED Gold for Gregg Museum Design

A new gallery wing designed by Perkins+Will for NC State’s Gregg Museum of Art & Design has earned Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification at the Gold level. “We are delighted for the architects and for NC State University that the Gregg Museum’s new galleries addition has achieved this status. It’s something they really deserve to… 

Apr 2, 2018 Talking Biotech podcast

Insect Gene Drives

Gene drives are a powerful technology that may be used to control pests. The concepts key off of exploiting genetic vulnerabilities that are rapidly inherited, and cause populations to crash over a short time. Such instances happen naturally, but now scientists are engineering the genetics of pests to induce steep population declines from gene drives.… 

Apr 2, 2018 CBS 17 North Carolina

NC State researchers work to protect firefighters from cancer

The firefighters here in Garner are on the front lines of the fight for safety after fires. One of the captains has some new special turnout gear being developed by researchers here at North Carolina State University. They are trying to make sure that firefighters get safely through their end of shift and into a… 

Mar 30, 2018 N&O

Rare eggs from a 15-foot-tall, chicken-like dinosaur are unveiled at NC museum

Zanno’s team had spent six years hiking over a portion of Utah that once stood at the edge of the Western Interior Seaway, a vast inland waterway that stretched from Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico. Though desert today, in Cretaceous times it would have supported a variety of reptiles. Near the end of a… 

Mar 30, 2018 WRAL

Dinosaur eggs found by NCSU paleontologist now at Museum of Natural Sciences

A researcher at North Carolina State University has recovered a clutch of rare dinosaur eggs from cliffs in Utah. The football-sized oviraptorosaur eggs were in sediment estimated to be 97 million years old, said Lindsay Zanno, who also is head of paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. The site also contained evidence of… 

Mar 30, 2018 Scientific American

The Fight to Keep Tobacco Sacred

But tobacco companies have modified N. tabacum to enhance certain traits for flavor or growth. So today’s version—much like other commercialized crops—bears little resemble to its ancestors, says Ramsey Lewis, a professor of crop science who focuses on Nicotiana genetics at North Carolina State University. Now, he says, N. tabacum is rarely found in nature. 

Mar 30, 2018 The Irish Times

Foiling fatbergs, the elephants in the sewer

Well the idea of a sewer is that waste keeps moving through it, but if a fatberg blocks the sewer, then the waste moves more slowly or stops altogether and begins to back up, and you might get sewage bubbling up through outlets to the surface or into rivers and causing environmental damage. I have… 

Mar 30, 2018 Fast Company

Why You Should Recruit Older Workers

A 2013 study from North Carolina State University looked at the reputation scores of programmers in an online forum called Stack Overflow, which has more than 1.6 million members. Researchers found that, on average, programmer reputation scores increased relative to age well into the 50s and that they exhibited expertise in more areas than did younger users. 

Mar 29, 2018 Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News

Altering Gut Microbiome May Increase Resistance to C. difficile infection

North Carolina State University scientists using a mouse model found that antibiotic use creates a veritable “banquet” for Clostridium difficile (C. diff) by altering the native gut bacteria that would normally compete with C. diff for nutrients.