Stem News

There are apps that turn your smartphone into a metal detector, a musical instrument and a GPS system, and now there's an app that may help doctors save your life if you're having a heart attack.

The North Carolina Boys and Girls Home School in Lake Waccamaw is becoming a charter school.

Darien Hicks, 21, of 4576 Raleigh Road, Henderson, was arrested May 7 on charges of obtaining stolen property by fraud, larceny and breaking and entering.

Southeastern Regional Medical Center, affiliated with Southeastern Health, has received the American Heart Association's Mission: Lifeline Bronze Receiving Quality Achievement Award.

An Economic Policy Institute study debunks a popular argument for loosened immigration policy-the increasing demand and lack of supply of STEM workers.

The conventional wisdom these days is that the United States needs more people trained in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics .

Terry Worrell , a longtime Guilford County Schools official and the district's central region superintendent since 2009, will leave to accept a new leadership position with N.C. New Schools at the end of the school year, according to an announcement .

Ike Smith, an English teacher at Craven Early College, was named Teacher of the Year for Craven County Schools at a ceremony Tuesday.

At the semi-annual IMF spring meetings in Washington D.C much was said about the current state of the global economy.

Those who suffer a particular kind of heart attack while already admitted to UNC Hospitals are 10 times more likely to die than those who suffer the same heart attack outside the hospital walls, according to new research.

The Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute is a public not-for-profit foundation established in 1998.