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Researchers create shape-shifting ‘transformer bots’

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Alumni Brandi Smith and Eric Snider are leading efforts to build a new class of nuclear-powered submarines for the U.S. Navy.

Oct 29, 2024

Two hands on deck

A pair of alums is leading efforts to build a new class of nuclear-powered submarines for the U.S. Navy. 
Three people making a presentation in front of a poster that says "Hackathon"

Oct 25, 2024

Creating cutting-edge Ag Tech

Nearly 50 NC State University undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral scholars spent a fall weekend competing in the N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative’s fourth annual Hackathon, taking on real-world agricultural technology… 
Researchers with poplar trees in a greenhouse.

Oct 21, 2024

Finding could help turn trees into affordable, greener industrial chemicals

Specific molecular property of lignin in trees determines difficulty of using microbial fermentation to turn trees and other plants into industrial chemicals. 
row after row of tall corn plants in a field

Oct 18, 2024

A faster way to ID drought-resistant plants for crop breeding research

New work will speed up research on developing drought-resistant crops. 
Xavious Allen examines a fungus.

Oct 18, 2024

Boundary-crossing research paves way for fungal crop solutions

Think of fungi in agriculture, and you might think first of the crop diseases they cause. But since ancient times, farmers have been using the interactions among fungi and crops… 
An image of the interior of a car without a driver, and a center console mapping the traffic around it digitally.

Oct 17, 2024

New technique could help self-driving cars see their surroundings better

Researchers developed a technique to help self-driving cars’ AI programs better map the spaces around them. 
A render of the proposed NC State Integrative Sciences Building, situated on the Brickyard.

Oct 16, 2024

CBE’s Abolhasani named Integrative Sciences Initiative’s director of accelerated technologies

Two new directors of NC State’s Integrative Sciences Initiative (ISI) and the first occupants of Woodson Hall, the heart of the ISI, have been announced. Milad Abolhasani and Melanie Simpson were named director of accelerated technologies and director of research, respectively, effective October 1. 
an array of green lights that look like LEDs

Oct 11, 2024

Engineering perovskite materials at the atomic level paves way for new lasers, LEDs

New technique dictates precisely how layered hybrid perovskite materials convert electrical charge into light. 
An image of a structure made of plastic cubes connected by hinges and tiny motors.

Oct 10, 2024

Researchers create shape-shifting ‘transformer bots’

Using 3D printing, the researchers engineered a cubed structure made of plastic that can transform into more than 1,000 configurations.