NC State researchers explored the mental health benefits of birdsong and restored forests, like along greenways.

For many years, scientists and pet owners have regarded reptiles as animals that primarily act on instinct. Being ...

A photon enters a cloud of atoms and emerges on the other side. When physicists calculate how long the atoms remained excited ...

Time seems to be one of the most obvious things in the universe: it moves forward, seconds change minutes, and the past cannot be returned. However, modern physics has long shown that everything is ...

It’s not about the Xs and Os, it’s about the Jimmies and Joes.” But it’s overplayed for a good reason — it’s true. That’s the reason the difference-making players in college football, both proven and ...

The abundance that AI promises to deliver represents an enormous and radical opportunity – a chance to reconnect with the ancient project of how to live For a long time humanity has dreamed about a ...

Scientists have directly watched angular momentum move through a crystal for the very first time — and discovered a bizarre twist along the way. Using ultra-powerful terahertz laser pulses, ...

The News & Observer is proud to introduce our 2026 summer interns and fellows. The journalists will work in departments across the newsroom, including on our metro, politics, business, sports, visuals ...

Proprioception refers to “the body’s ability to sense movement, action and location.” Close your eyes and hold out your arm in a random position. Being able to precisely locate one’s arm in space with ...

Scientists have pulled off a feat long considered out of reach: getting light to mimic the famous quantum Hall effect. In their experiment, photons drift sideways in perfectly defined, quantized steps ...

In his classic science-fiction story “The New Accelerator,” published in 1901, H. G. Wells describes a drug that speeds up a person’s metabolism by a factor of 1,000. For the two protagonists who ...