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Mar 31, 2025

PFAS From Fluorochemical Plant Found in Dust of Nearby Homes

PFAS associated with a nearby fluorochemical plant is in the household dust of homes located in Cumberland and Bladen counties.

Mar 24, 2025

Novel Material Holds Promise for Tech to Convert CO2 Into Fuel

Researchers have developed a novel combination of materials that have organic and inorganic properties, with the goal of using them in technologies that convert carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into a liquid fuel.

Mar 19, 2025

Case Study: Bartonella, Babesia, Found in Brain Tissue of Child With Seizures

Researchers found Bartonella henselae, Babesia odocoilei and Babesia divergens-like MO-1 DNA in brain tissue samples from a young child with seizures and suspected Rasmussen’s encephalitis.

Mar 17, 2025

Researchers Demonstrate New Technique for Boosting Plant Growth with Bacteria

The work paves the way for crop applications that make use of these beneficial bacteria in conjunction with agrochemicals.

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Mar 10, 2025

New Technique Overcomes Spurious Correlations Problem in AI

Researchers have discovered that learned spurious correlations in AI can be traced to a very small subset of the training data and have demonstrated a technique that overcomes the problem.

Mar 3, 2025

Eggshells Point to Diverse Dino Ecosystem in North America

Lindsay Zanno explains what fossilized eggshells can tell us about life in the Late Cretaceous period.

Feb 27, 2025

Avian Flu: How Scientists and Farmers are Working to Adapt

What’s driving the current outbreak of Avian flu? And how are scientists working to find solutions?

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Feb 27, 2025

Study Finds Support for Solar Energy Has Become Politically Polarized

While public support for solar energy remains high, that support declined significantly from 2016 to 2022.

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Feb 20, 2025

New Technique Aims to Make Food Deliveries More Efficient

The technique develops optimized delivery routes to make food delivery faster and more fuel efficient.

illustration shows how a new technique can tune quantum dots to produce a full range of colors

Feb 18, 2025

Light-Powered Breakthrough Enables Precision Tuning of Quantum Dots

The new technique uses light to tune the optical properties of quantum dots – making the process faster, more energy-efficient and more environmentally sustainable.

Feb 18, 2025

Catherine Davis Named Sloan Research Fellow

Davis’ work focuses on the long-term effects of global climate on oceanographic environments.

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Feb 17, 2025

New Tech Tracks Student Behavior in Educational Games to Boost Collaborative Learning

The new tools create real-time assessments that can be used to modify educational games to improve learning.

Feb 10, 2025

Age, Burial Environment Don’t Hinder Soft Tissue Preservation in Dinosaurs

Soft tissue preservation in fossils does not seem to depend upon the species, age or burial environment of the fossils.

Feb 4, 2025

Case Study: Bartonella, Babesia Co-Infection in Family Associated with Neurological Illnesses

A family suffering from illnesses that included neurological symptoms were co-infected with both Bartonella and Babesia.

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Jan 31, 2025

Moving Plant Disease Diagnosis from Lab to Field for Faster Results

North Carolina State University researchers continue to push the field of plant disease diagnosis forward, developing simple-to-run tests capable of delivering results in minutes, sometimes before plants show visible signs…