The UNC Highway Research Safety Center pushes parents to be a driving force.

How one UNC researcher aims to limit flood risk through floodplain buyouts.

Most young scientists don't get the opportunity to do field work until college. The UNC Environmental Resources summer program is working to change that.

Requiring police officers to wear cameras isn’t quite as simple as it sounds.

Will graphic warnings motivate people to quit smoking?

Around the world, Andy Reynolds helps new democracies live up to the name.

Obesity makes influenza more dangerous. But it may also give us clues about how to stop potentially fatal flu earlier.

A UNC researcher investigates why North Carolina teachers are having trouble breathing—in their own classrooms.

As summer approaches, Maggie Kovach is finding ways for North Carolinians to avoid getting sick from the sun.

Cystic fibrosis took five of her siblings at a young age. Now, Wanda O’Neal is part of a team of UNC researchers searching for reasons why. Their latest work provides insight that will help unravel why a sixth sibling with CF is living a productive life as he turns 50.

If you're sentenced to life in prison, you might eventually be released through parole. But what are the chances a prisoner with a life sentence will actually get parole? A UNC researcher dug through years of data to find out.

A team of researchers uses cutting-edge technology to better predict when and how one of South America’s most active volcanoes will erupt.