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Composite image of a globular springtail jumping. By Tracey Peake, NCSU News Services Move over, Sonic. There’s a new spin-jumping champion in town – the globular springtail (Dicyrtomina minuta). This diminutive hexapod backflips into the air, spinning to over 60 times its body height in the blink of an eye, and a new study features… Read More >

The mini-transmitter on the back of the cuckoo accounts for less than five percent of his body weight. It radios its data every two days for ten hours. Photo: © Natural History Museum of Denmark/M. Willemoes By Morning Edition Hosts The internet of animals, it’s a global initiative to tag, track and learn about animal… Read More >

Cretaceous Creatures is a public science project that seeks to inspire, educate and collaborate with 8th-grade science students across the state and beyond as they do real science with real fossils. The fossils students are finding are tiny, but their discoveries are big! From 2022-2024, 14,000+ middle school students in North Carolina identified more than… Read More >

Photo: Brendan Landis, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr. By Annette Weston, Public Radio East “It was a staple of many B movies, cartoons, and TV shows in the 60s and 70s; now quicksand appears more often in memes by the 50-something crowd on social media. “PRE’s Annette Weston set out to discover whether quicksand is… Read More >

[RALEIGH, N.C.] — Don’t miss “Dia de la Ciencia y la Cultura” (“Science and Culture Day”), a brand new and fully bilingual (Spanish-English) event celebrating science and Hispanic culture at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Saturday, August 3, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Free.) Whether you’re a science enthusiast, student or just curious,… Read More >