Fourteen startup companies based on innovations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will present at the annual Emerging Company Showcase on April 18.

Special conservation zones known as marine protected areas provide many direct benefits to fisheries and coral reefs.

Children in central North Carolina can explore the science of simple machines by signing up for GlaxoSmithKline’s free Science in the Summer education program.

Birds in eastern North America are picking up the pace along their yearly migratory paths.

High school students from Orange and Durham counties will learn the nuts and bolts of how energy and environmental policies are crafted at a workshop at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Saturday (Feb. 25).

The North Carolina Science Festival is bringing four television stars who specialize in science entertainment to the state in April, with tickets for the events on sale now.

Science philosopher Philip Kitcher will discuss new approaches to public discourse on climate change, bioethics and other controversial issues Feb. 28 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute for the Environment will host a public talk, “To Frac or Not to Frac: Risks and Rewards of Natural Gas Production from Shale,” on Jan. 31.

Marc Levoy – whose career achievements include developing the cartoon animation system used in “The Flintstones” TV show and launching Google’s Street View project – will be the keynote speaker for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s 2012 … Read more

Computer scientist Ming C. Lin, Ph.D., of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society.