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A new North Carolina study connected cooking with science, examining how fermented foods like kombucha and kimchi – which have had a huge surge in popularity in recent years – not only taste good but are also good for you.

Cape Hatteras officials said the beach in the Buxton area is dangerous, and remains closed because of hazardous debris, following the collapses of seven homes in Buxton in the past few days. Three houses on Cottage Avenue and two on Tower Circle Road fell into the Atlantic Tuesday afternoon, and, according to the seashore’s website, a third on Tower Circle Road tumbled into the water sometime overnight. Wednesday evening, another home on Tower Circle Road collapsed.

The annual BugFest at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh includes more than 100 exhibits tied to bugs, some hands-on activities to explore, and entomologists to guide visitors through the intricate world of arthropods. Perhaps slightly more surprising than the scientists, there will also be chefs.

Cleanup is underway at Cape Hatteras National Seashore after a house in Buxton collapsed into the Atlantic this week, and the superintendent of the seashore said threatened structures on the barrier islands are not a new phenomenon.

The keynote speaker at the 9/11 tribute, Christopher Previglian, is a veteran that watched the events in New York unfold firsthand. He said, “I was right on the Hudson River, and I could see both towers from the south side of the building I was on.”

Eric Flynn is a partner with the Bell Legal Group, which is handling hundreds of the toxic water cases, and he said more than 2,500 lawsuits have been filed, and 411,000 claims remain pending with the Department of the Navy after the Camp Lejeune Justice Act opened a two-year-window to sue for damages related to illnesses that may have been caused by toxic water aboard the base. That window closed just over a year ago.

The Ensuring Justice for Camp Lejeune Victims Act has strong bipartisan support in both chambers. Companion legislation has also been introduced in the Senate.

Darlene Brooks says Jim was not only a former Marine, but a construction worker – and the illness that appeared in his 50s devastated him. "Battling breast cancer was very difficult,” she said, “For one thing, Jim did was kind of embarrassed that it was breast cancer. And you know, like we didn't hear men having breast cancer.”

The Camp Lejuene Justice Act was signed into law more than three years ago, and nearly all of the legal claims that resulted from it – more than 400,000 of them – are still mired in the legal process.

Hyper-realistic videos and images — digitally altered photos, video or audio also called deepfakes — are notorious for social media pranking, but the technology has serious scientific applications, too, including ongoing efforts to study and conserve endangered species like the North Atlantic Right Whale.