In this week’s episode, Morehead Planetarium educators Amy Sayle and Mickey Jo Sorrell tell us what to expect during the 2017 solar eclipse and how to safely watch it.

UNC Gillings School of Public Health researchers suggest that Fitbits lack sufficient evidence for use as a public health surveillance tool in a recent research letter published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Casey Berger is a physics PhD student in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences. She uses high-performance computing to simulate interactions between particles to understand situations that arose in the early universe.

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, what is a nearly 500-year-old painting worth? The Ackland Art Museum and UNC PhD art history student Brianna Guthrie work together to uncover the answers.

UNC has long been one of the world’s premier autism research universities, and now its expertise and leading research programs will fall under one virtual roof at the UNC Autism Research Center.

A pioneer in the philosophical study of transformative experiences, L.A. Paul believes we are unable to evaluate major life choices from the perspective and values of our future, changed selves. 

Businesses emerging from UNC’s research enterprise contribute heavily to the total number of business startups that have spun out of Carolina over the past 60 years. UNC’s Office for Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development (OVCIEED) recently released the latest data … Continued

Rising senior Morgan Vicker’s current research project focuses on mapping historic cities now underwater, with attention to factors like racial dynamics, changing town infrastructure, and occupations.

Climate change will likely have a significant impact on the world’s ecosystems, but it could also lead to more premature human deaths from air pollution, according to a new study from UNC researchers.

Appalachia, the mountainous region home to about 8 percent of Americans, is falling behind the rest of the United States in life expectancy and infant mortality, according to a new study co-authored by UNC’s Rebecca Slifkin.