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Hillside High School senior Bakari Smith has been named the Duke University, Durham Public Schools Student of the Month for February.Click to Continue »

Engineer Mark Rober put an infrared sensor in the top of a microwave, installed a screen in the door, and created a solution for anyone who needs to see just…Click to Continue »

New technique could ID hair dye at crime scenes…Click to Continue »

For the second consecutive year, the photography staff of The News & Observer has been named 2014 Photo Staff of the Year by the N.C. Press Photographers Association during judging…Click to Continue »

We don’t regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.Click to Continue »

East Cary Middle is one of four Wake County schools to photograph the on-campus wildlife as part of the eMammal Project, an international scientific study funded by the U.S. State…Click to Continue »

Two dozen people were recognized Sunday by Housing for New Hope, a Durham nonprofit that has been working to prevent and end homelessness in the Triangle for 22 years.Click to Continue »

UNC Charlotte professor Stan Schneider's laboratory, a series of glass-encased hives containing more than 12,000 honeybees, has become the buzz for research on how bees choose who will create their…Click to Continue »

Major Deliar Shouki, the commander of a string of Kurdish fire bases less than 20 miles from Mosul, admitted he was skeptical when he’d heard the news last week that…Click to Continue »

Wielding the weapon of his pen, President Barack Obama this week is expected to formally reject a Republican attempt to force construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. But in…Click to Continue »