Pitchers get hurt. That’s a fact of baseball. And anyone who’s played the game has an opinion about why: the pitching motion is unnatural, curveballs and split-finger fastballs ruin elbows, pitch counts are too high, some pitchers aren’t built to last. Three UNC researchers were a little more scientific about it. They surveyed thousands of […]

The American Society of Plant Biologists (APSB) has honored Alan Jones with one of four ASPB Education Foundation Award Grants for Plant Science Outreach. Jones, the George and Alice Welsh Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology, will use the grant to develop a resource for elementary and secondary school students, with Jane Ellis of Presbyterian College.

UNC College of Arts and Sciences scientist and entrepreneur Joseph DeSimone has been invited to join an elite list of speakers at this year’s TEDMED Conference in San Diego, Calif., Oct. 25 – 28. DeSimone’s presentation, “Can Nanotechnology Deliver Mega Results?”will explore the latest advancements in nanomedicine, including PRINT technology, a technique invented in his

Say you’ve been scooped up and tossed four hundred million years back in time, back when the planet’s landmasses are still huddled together and the deep, colossal ocean Panthalassa covers most of the globe. The Earth you’ve landed on is laboring through its Devonian Period, a stretch of history famous for its huge armored fishes, wandering tectonic plates, and plummeting levels of carbon dioxide. You’re probably uncomfortably warm and the air probably stinks of iron sulfide.