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North Carolina State University is a public research university in Raleigh, N.C., noted for engineering, agriculture, and life-science research.
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NC State researchers report a knitted fabric cover raised strawberry yields as much as 3.56 times over uncovered plants in tunnel trials. The lead author credits steady warming for earlier fruiting, and the pesticide savings the team describes are so far a projection.
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Gregory Scholes helped build the case for quantum coherence in photosynthesis after 2007 and now doubts it; his recent papers get quantumlike behavior out of networks of ordinary classical oscillators.
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The site holds about 17,000 tagged feeding observations covering some 5,700 species, contributed by roughly 2,000 observers in more than 100 countries. The team is still building tools to validate submissions.
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North Carolina State University researchers say calcium makes the protein Sfi1 go slack, tightening a fishnet of myonemes around a single-celled ciliate. They are still working out what starts the calcium signal and how the cell resets to fire again.
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NC State's Jun Liu says the azobenzene lead iodine film is 700 to 10,000 times stiffer than silicone and five times the insulator. The lowest-conductivity claim in the announcement applies to dense, nonporous materials only.
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Researchers put the azobenzene ethyl ammonium lead iodine film at roughly 0.04 watts per metre-kelvin and 700 to 10,000 times silicone's stiffness. Without a thickness figure an engineer cannot specify it.
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NC State researchers surveyed 1,854 Americans and found 60% or more interested in science or convinced it benefits society, 43% calling it credible and 39% feeling they belong in it. The fix they propose rests on about 260 self-selected participants.
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Researchers at NC State mixed AI-generated pictures of 20 North American trees into real iNaturalist and Auto Arborist photos. The synthetic images helped the recognition model only in the runs where real images were limited.
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A team calibrated infrared spectra against beads of known silica content, checked the method on the Moon where returned rocks can grade it, and now reads Mercury's surface as up to 25 percent poorer in silica than assumed.
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The startup's genetic switch is aimed at the reliability problem that has kept engineered microbes from replacing synthetic nitrogen, and the proof sits two to three years out in corn trials that had not yet been harvested.
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An eight-step workflow puts five AI checkpoints between a topic and an abstract, and a nine-week run with 45 ecology undergraduates found students rated every step useful, which measures perceived value rather than question quality.
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An NC State forest health specialist says drought-stressed trees often die one to three years later, from spent reserves and insects. Mississippi's 2023 beetle loss shows the scale that follows.
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NC State engineers say resin affinity adsorbents cannot tell full AAV capsids from empty ones and must run slow, which makes vector supply a materials problem before it is a biology one.
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A freeze-dried Td vaccine matched two standard comparators in a 60-person UK trial after a year out of the fridge. Regulators currently allow such excursions for 3 to 4 days.
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A UC Berkeley team is building a virtual Lower Pajaro River watershed to show residents and officials what a levee choice actually does. The pitch is legibility, not precision.
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