NC State University

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It's the job of a scientist to collect data and examine evidence. But what do you do when your dinosaur research leads to a discovery that isn't possible according to conventional wisdom? Dr. Mary Higby Schweitzer, Biology faculty at NC State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, made this kind of discovery. But instead of giving up and leaving it a mystery, she set out to disprove our common knowledge.

The endowment at North Carolina State University is approaching $1 billion. This makes NC State only the 4th school in the North Carolina to achieve this.

Farmers often rely on honeybees to help their crops grow. And scientists have been concerned about the decline of honeybees in recent years. But a new study shows that honeybees are not the only important pollinators out there.

Word of a dispute between the Carolina Hurricanes and NC State University hit the news over the last week.