Staff
![Chris Hewett, supervisor of the Department of Physics Instrument Shop, welds the roundhouse, a stainless steel cylindrical structure that experimental physicists will use to study low-energy neutrons.](https://research.ncsu.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/38/files/2024/02/chris-hewett-welding-instrument-shop.jpg)
An Instrumental Place
![Sonja Salmon (left) and Siyan Wang (right) stand in the lab with lab coats and protective glasses. Salmon holds fabric samples and Wang holds two bottles of solution with some fabric fragments visible.](https://research.ncsu.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/38/files/2024/01/img0356.jpg)
NC State Textile Waste Research Paves Way for Greener Textile Future
![The NC State Belltower at dusk and night. Photo by Marc Hall](https://research.ncsu.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/38/files/2024/01/belltower-night-1500.jpg)
New NSF Center Will Advance Textile Industry ‘Greening’
![black-and-white video still shows a ringlike object in a square space that has one gap for an entrance. A bright white line shows the path that the object has taken in tracing the contours of the space.](https://research.ncsu.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/38/files/2024/01/yin-orbit-header-1500.jpg)
New Soft Robots Roll Like Tires, Spin Like Tops and Orbit Like Moons
![illustration shows two pieces of metal foam being welded together using an induction welder. Several inches away from the site of the weld (which is white hot), the metal foam is cool enough to touch with a bare hand.](https://research.ncsu.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/38/files/2024/01/rabiei-welding-header.jpg)
Researchers Find Way to Weld Metal Foam Without Melting Its Bubbles
![Caddisfly eggs on a rock.](https://research.ncsu.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/38/files/2023/12/mktaylorstreamrock1500.jpg)
Aquatic Insects in Restored Streams Need More Rocks to Lay Their Eggs
![photo shows an adult male turkey in profile](https://research.ncsu.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/38/files/2023/12/boone-turkey-header.jpg)
Study Overturns Conventional Wisdom About Wild Turkey Nesting Survival
![View of biopolymer film on left and microscopic view of the film on right.](https://research.ncsu.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/38/files/2023/12/kotbvelev-whitebackground-scaled-1.jpg)
Researchers Combine Biopolymers Derived From the Ocean to Replace Synthetic Plastic Films
![Dead tree in dry landscape](https://research.ncsu.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/38/files/2023/12/pexels-pixabay-60013-1500.jpg)
What Can 66-Million-Year-Old Carbon Dioxide Data Tell Us About Our Future Climate?
![The milky way galaxy](https://research.ncsu.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/38/files/2023/12/milkyway-1500-scaled-1.jpg)