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Duke researchers use super high speed photographer to capture never before seen images and
Duke High Speed Photo Science
The alligators at Greenfield Lake are showing signs of chemical exposure.
Are Alligators Getting Sick?
American Hammer in Wilmington makes 600 types of hammers. Materials science guides them.
Hammer Science
Using genetics to root out cancer
A doctor at UNC Medical Center is using genomic sequencing to identify genetic mutations.
Using genetics to root out cancer
Wearable health technology could aid in coronavirus effort
How wearables like Fitbits can help track the coronavirus
Wearable health technology could aid in coronavirus effort
NC company develops treatment for Covid-19
Grifols is using antibodies to treat the coronavirus.
NC company develops treatment for Covid-19
How to tell the difference between COVID-19 and allergies
How to tell the difference between COVID-19, allergies and the flu.
How to tell the difference between COVID-19 and allergies
A network of doctors offer hope to those with rare diseases
Hope for patients with rare, unknown diseases.
A network of doctors offer hope to those with rare diseases
What Makes a Virus a Pandemic?
At what point does a contagious disease become an outbreak? An epidemic? Or a pandemic?
What Makes a Virus a Pandemic?
How genetic counseling helps families
Genetic counseling helps patients make sense of their genetics.
How genetic counseling helps families
Crowders Mountain is being loved to death
Visitors to a state park near Charlotte may be loving the area to death.
Crowders Mountain is being loved to death
Snakes are crucial to the health of Merchants Millpond
Merchants Millpond supports 21 species of snakes. That's a good thing.
Snakes are crucial to the health of Merchants Millpond
How Lake Waccamaw got rid of hydrilla
A lake in southeastern North Carolina recently faced a major environmental threat.
How Lake Waccamaw got rid of hydrilla
Hemp is becoming a popular drug for consumer health and an important crop for NC farmers.
What hemp farming looks like
How the cotton industry has changed in NC
Science is helping NC cotton farmers from the seed to the finished product
How the cotton industry has changed in NC
Mushrooms: foraging, cloning & cooking
Get an inside look at what it takes to farm our favorite fungi.
Mushrooms: foraging, cloning & cooking
New tools will make the nation’s longest running coastal shark survey even more robust.
New tools for shark research
Sourdough bread is a microbial mystery
We still don't understand the yeasts and bacteria that make sourdough possible.
Sourdough bread is a microbial mystery
Eat a fish you've never heard of
How eating unusual and under-loved fish is good for fisheries and fishermen.
Eat a fish you've never heard of
How farmers and golfers are helping the monarch butterfly
Encouraging farmers and golf courses to create more habitat for monarch butterflies.
