The mysteries of how tardigrades survive some of the most extreme environments imaginable have potentially been solved. … “What we saw surprised us,” Bob Goldstein, a tardigrade researcher and biologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said … Read more
Carolina dramatic art alumna Bekah Brunstetter is not a video game aficionado. Yet she has now written not one, but two plays, about the ways that video games can hinder or facilitate human connection. “The Game” is currently having its … Read more
Social media features such as endless scrolling and push notifications are “particularly risky” to young people, whose developing brains are less able to disengage from addictive experiences and are more sensitive to distractions, the American Psychological Association wrote in a report … Read more
This summer, Olympic track and field champions for the first time in history will take home more than gold medals — they’ll also pocket a $50,000 cash prize. … That changed in 1992 thanks to then-IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch, … Read more
During the Little Ice Age, Native North Americans devised whole new economic, social, and political structures. The Atlantic published an excerpt from UNC-Chapel Hill historian Kathleen DuVal’s forthcoming book, Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (Penguin Randomhouse). “A common … Read more
Thousands of young students were removed from class for behavior common for kids their age. Children often act out as they learn to regulate emotions. … Suspension can be particularly damaging when doled out to younger students, said Iheoma Iruka, … Read more
Social media companies have collectively made nearly 100 tweaks to their platforms to comply with new standards in the United Kingdom to improve online safety for kids. That’s according to a new report by the U.S.-based nonprofit Children and Screens: … Read more
How to balance justice, and redemption. Punishment, and opportunity. Those are just two of the ethics-balancing questions raised in a new book co-written by a man on death row in North Carolina. It’s called Rap and Redemption on Death Row. … … Read more
Picture it: you’re on a crowded subway and someone sneezes. Or maybe you’re on a plane and the person next to you keeps coughing. Perhaps you shook hands with someone who didn’t wash their hands after going to the bathroom. … Read more
Once so key to the plantation economy of the Deep South that politicians sometimes referred to their diplomatic strategy simply as “King Cotton,” the crop’s demand from US manufacturers is on an unrelenting — and accelerating — decline. … Companies … Read more
