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Want to Win the NCAA Tournament? Learn Some Physics
It’s March Madness time again, and the fate of millions of NCAA Tournament fans – and bracket sheets – will live and die with gut-wrenching, soul-sapping, last-second three-point shots and rimmed-out...
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Using Ants to Map Patterns of Diversity
They account for more than 80 percent of Earth’s species, but insects merit little respect in either conservation or global diversity studies. NC State biology professor Rob Dunn and postdoc Michael...
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Sharing Colors to Survive
At first glance, the vibrantly colored and patterned butterflies living in Central and South America wouldn’t seem to have much in common with that notorious beast of burden – the mule. In a paper...
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In Some U.S. Regions, It Pays to Live Near a Wildlife Refuge
Home values increase when you live close to a wildlife refuge and to a metropolitan area. Photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Getting closer to nature has its perks, at least in some...
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Corn Conundrum
How do you keep destructive insects from developing resistance to the toxins in genetically modified plants – resistance that turns insects into efficient and effective crop-killing machines? In the...
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Geological Changes Spurred Dino Diversity
Paleogeographic maps of North America during the (A) late Campanian (~75 million years ago) and (B) late Maastrichtian (~65 million years ago). Maps courtesy of Ron Blakey, Colorado Plateau Geosystems....
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Green is Good
Cabbage may not triple the size of your forearms, but it may help build muscle and increase physical performance. Photo by Roger Winstead. Editor’s note: The following guest post was written by Leah...
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Needle Ant Invasion Spreads Coast to Coast
A crusade to invade that began in North Carolina has spread to the Midwest, Pacific Northwest and even to an island packed with concrete and glass – Manhattan. So go the travels of the Asian needle...
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Are You Ready for Some Football Visualizations?
Like most fantasy football team general managers, I’m looking for every possible advantage, including checking out this year’s NFL games to figure out how the Baltimore Ravens defense performed against...
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Choosy Mothers Choose Skin? One Way to Make Peanut Products Healthier
Peanuts taste good and are good for you. But a new NC State study shows that putting a bit of skin in the game can make peanut products even healthier while keeping them flavorful. Food scientist Dr....
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Roaches, Research and Unintended Consequences: A Cautionary Tale
When performing research, what happens when you restrict a research subject’s ability to perform some function – gluing a cockroach’s mouth closed to prevent it from eating, say, or gluing a ring...
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Study Shines Light on Mules, Their Blood Chemistry
Offspring of female horses and male donkeys, mules are often associated with caution and hard work. While they’ll never be mistaken for thoroughbreds, mules play important roles in modern society –...
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How to Keep Fresh Fruits and Veggies From Going AWOL
Keeping fruits and vegetables fresh while shipping them halfway around the planet presents logistical challenges that even the U.S. military can’t solve. Now NC State is working with the Army to infuse...
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My Color Patch is Shinier Than His
Image courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Evolutionary biologists have long suspected that intense competition for mates may speed up the formation of new species, but it has been difficult...
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Hungry? Print a Pizza
You’re just dying for a pizza: gooey cheese, sweet tomato sauce, blistered crust. One problem: You’re millions of miles away from a pizza place, flying in some sort of spaceship toward Mars. Domino’s...
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Blueberry Power: Eat Your Way to a Better Workout
Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Justin Moore, an extension communications specialist who works at NC State’s Plants for Human Health Institute in Kannapolis, N.C. Drop and give me 20. But...
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Nothing to See Here
“Blend in” appears to be the mantra for male Bahamas mosquitofish that live near predators. After all, fish with brighter, more colorful fins or patches are more conspicuous – and standing out with...
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Poisonous Water Leads to Bigger, But Fewer, Fish Babies
Living in extreme environments often entails taking extreme measures to survive. Live-bearing fish mothers in toxic North and South American waters try to give their offspring the best chance at...
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New NSF Dielectrics Center Ties Research Efforts to Product Development
If you want to do research that solves problems facing global industries, it helps to form partnerships with the industries you want to help. That’s the idea behind the National Science Foundation’s...
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What’s Eating You?
It’s a jungle out there. Humans can be infected by more than 1,400 parasites – viruses, bacteria, fungi, etc. It can be bad enough when one nasty parasite takes hold – it’s certainly no fun to be...
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