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Falls crayfish (Cambarus burchfielae). Photo: Mike Perkins. Click to enlarge. [RALEIGH, N.C.] — Tucked into the niches of neighboring streams, each draining off the Blue Ridge Mountains, reside two new species of crayfish found in North Carolina and nowhere else on the planet. Meet Cambarus lapidosus, aka the Stony Fork crayfish, named after a small tributary… Read More >

A piece of plastic debris that’s been colonized by both coastal barnacles (pink and striped) and a gooseneck barnacle from the open ocean. Photo: Linsey Haram/SERC Marine Invasions Lab. By Nell Greenfieldboyce, WUNC Scientists studying a giant collection of plastic trash floating in the middle of the open ocean have found some unexpected inhabitants: dozens… Read More >

By Rick Armstrong, WRAL photojournalist RALEIGH, N.C. — Tuesday was the launch of the NC Science Trail, a year-round digital guidebook to the state’s science adventures. The purpose is to spark science exploration across the state. Right in the heart of busy west Raleigh are 42 acres is Prairie Ridge Ecostation part of the statewide… Read More >

[RALEIGH, N.C.] — Do you like stomp rockets, robots, 3D printing, solar observing, drones and computer vision? Then Triangle SciTech Expo is the event for you. Visit the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in downtown Raleigh on Saturday, April 22, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. and immerse yourself in the excitement of STEM (Science,… Read More >

Photo: Sönke Johnsen. [RALEIGH, N.C.] – Be amazed by the diversity and uniqueness of ocean life in a photographic tour of the oceans’ wildest inhabitants with Duke Professor Sönke Johnsen. With “Art Meets Science in the Open Sea” – held at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences on Thursday, April 13 at 7 p.m…. Read More >