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How Doulas Help Black Moms Have Better Births
Black doulas can help bridge the equity gap in Black maternal health.
How Doulas Help Black Moms Have Better Births

Sharks Are Often Killed On Accident. Here's A Way to Fix It.
As some shark species recover, humans are having more interactions with them.
Sharks Are Often Killed On Accident. Here's A Way to Fix It.

Corals Spawn on Land for the First Time!
New technology allows researchers to simulate ocean conditions & spawn corals in the lab!
Corals Spawn on Land for the First Time!

How Polar Bears Find Love at the Zoo
Finding love in the wild is complicated. It's even trickier in captivity.
How Polar Bears Find Love at the Zoo

Connecting and Learning Through Virtual Reality
Using virtual and augmented reality to immerse students in STEM learning and cure phobias.
Connecting and Learning Through Virtual Reality

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