When a wild turtle recovers from an accident and is released back into the wild, what happens next? A new study from North Carolina State University reveals that finding those answers can often be just as challenging as saving ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 9, 2023
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Governments, nonprofit organizations, and other groups spend roughly $100 billion a year to support conservation. Restrictions on where conservation funds can be spent, however, prevent organizations from focusing on the ...
Ecology
Oct 7, 2023
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Increased salinity usually spells trouble for freshwater insects like mayflies. A new study from North Carolina State University finds that the lack of metabolic responses to salinity may explain why some freshwater insects ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 5, 2023
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A new study of the genetic blueprints of more than 600 types of carrot shows that three specific genes are required to give carrots an orange color. Surprisingly, these three required genes all need to be recessive, or turned ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 28, 2023
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Being a mom is hard. Being a Black mom is especially hard. A new study from North Carolina State University underscores the ways that being a Black mother in the United States involves navigating aspects of parenthood that ...
Social Sciences
Sep 21, 2023
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Researchers have demonstrated a material for next generation dynamic windows, which would allow building occupants to switch their windows between three modes: transparent, or "normal" windows; windows that block infrared ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 21, 2023
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A new study finds that only a third of adults in the United States did not rely on their parents for some form of material support between their late teens and early 40s. The study highlights the extent to which parents and ...
Social Sciences
Sep 20, 2023
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A new study finds that creating physical gaps in the forest canopy gives Eastern hemlocks more access to resources and help those trees withstand infestation by an invasive insect. The approach adds another tool to the toolkit ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 18, 2023
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Two new studies find that regulations aimed at improving the transparency of corporate accounting practices may have had unintended consequences. Specifically, the researchers found that corporate financial reporting requirements ...
Economics & Business
Sep 18, 2023
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North Carolina State University researchers have successfully transferred an important gene from one compartment of a plant cell to another to produce tobacco plants that lack pollen and viable seeds, while otherwise growing ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 15, 2023
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