Research

The first images from the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory debuted on June 23, 2025. Scientists at Duke and across the world await the groundbreaking data it will come to collect.

Universities across the country are bracing for the impacts of billions of dollars in federal funding cuts. Young scholars worry about how university preparations for the budget hit – from lowering graduate student admissions to freezing hiring – will impact their job outlook.

Two years ago, state lawmakers allocated $500 million to a group that helps academic researchers turn their work into business start-ups. But as the organization issues its first grants, the legislature could soon take back the money.

UNC’s ViVE center — that houses all the data — was partly funded through the National Institutes of Health for over $3 million over the course of five years.

Duke’s collection of more than 800,000 specimens of fungi, plants and algae makes the herbarium one of the largest in the country. The move to close it has drawn criticism from faculty and researchers nationwide.

North Carolina State University researchers have developed a naturally-sourced material that could aid efforts to reduce plastic films, like ones used in food packaging.

Only 4% of universities in the U.S. hold an elite research designation called R1 and they are all historically white. North Carolina A&T State University, a Historically Black College and University, is working to change that.

Deputies from the Pender County Sheriff’s Office had found three men unresponsive in a privately owned Lexus sedan in Hampstead. Autopsies performed last week by the North Carolina medical examiner’s office determined that all three died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

A new funding opportunity is available for a North Carolina grad student to study these habitats developing across the state’s East Coast.

High blood sugar in test animals created more buildup of toxic proteins that give rise to Alzheimer's disease, researchers found.