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Sep 3, 2025

Podcast: Flooding

Katherine Anarde talks about sunny day flooding and improving flood predictions.

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Aug 25, 2025

Meet Rainbow: The Multi-Robot Lab Racing to Discover the Next Quantum Dots

Rainbow autonomously discovers nanoparticles critical for next-generation displays, solar cells, LEDs and quantum-engineering technologies.

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Aug 21, 2025

Researchers Demonstrate New Technique for Controlling Phase Boundaries in Thin Films

The technique allows researchers to engineer new energy storage materials that do not rely on toxic elements.

A young child scared of getting a shot from a doctor with a needle.

Aug 20, 2025

How Dental Floss Could One Day Deliver Vaccines

Recent research findings show that dental floss could be an effective way to administer vaccines and immunizations instead of shots.

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Aug 20, 2025

Researchers Make Better Magnets – at a Lower Cost

The new technique for manufacturing strong magnetic materials improves the quality of the magnets, produces the magnets quickly, uses less energy and is less expensive.

photo shows a clear plastic rectangle applied to a person's arm

Aug 18, 2025

Self-Powered Patch Monitors Biomarkers Without Drawing Blood

The self-powered microneedle patch can monitor a range of health biomarkers without drawing blood or relying on batteries or external power sources.

illustration shows how a microbe is mutated to produce a new microbe that produces more plasmid dna for use in biomedical applications

Aug 13, 2025

‘Controlled Evolution’ Dramatically Boosts pDNA Production for Biomedical Manufacturing

The advance is significant because the new technique could drive down the cost of gene therapy treatments.

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Aug 8, 2025

New Physical Model Aims to Boost Energy Storage Research

The new model can be incorporated into computational tools to help design better batteries and capacitors.

A photograph of a swirl of flood water breaching a sidewalk and going down a drain.

Aug 5, 2025

Rise in Flooding Frequency Means New, Land-Based Sensors Might be Needed

Using sensors placed in storm drains could be a more accurate way to track ‘sunny day’ flooding events, according to a recently published paper.

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Jul 30, 2025

Tech Tool Offers Improved Assurances for Small Business Contracts

A new electronic tool improves the security of small-scale business transactions with the goal of helping ensure businesses are paid and customers get what they pay for.

satellite view of a hurricane or typhoon nearing a coastline

Jul 29, 2025

Research Improves Accuracy of Climate Models – Particularly for Compound Extreme Events

The advance should provide policymakers with improved climate projections that can be used to inform policy and planning decisions.

black and white image shows 3D renderings of 7 forams, which are all complex, curved structures

Jul 29, 2025

How Tiny Fossils Are Leading to Smarter Robots

A technique designed to help robots sort tiny marine fossils could pave the way for a host of additional applications.

graphic design shows how vaccine can gain entry to the bloodstream via a space between the tooth and the gum

Jul 28, 2025

Why You May Get Future Vaccines Via Dental Floss

Researchers have demonstrated a novel vaccine delivery method, using dental floss to introduce vaccine via the tissue between the teeth and gums.

a hand wearing a latex glove holds six tiny metal strips, each only millimeters wide and no longer than a thumbnail.

Jul 28, 2025

New Spectrometer Is Small Enough to Fit on Your Phone

The technology makes it possible to create portable, hand-held spectroscopy devices.

The strolling professor statue, a well-known campus landmark in NC State’s Gardner Arboretum.

Jul 16, 2025

Four Faculty Members Named 2025-26 Fulbright Scholars

This year’s cohort will conduct engineering and horticultural research as well as teach courses at institutions in Italy, Turkey and India.