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In partnership with NOAA, aerospace and defense technology company Northrup Grumman has used autonomous underwater drones equipped with sonar to capture the most detailed 3D digital models of the wreck to date.

The ruling comes after Dr. Julie Goodman submitted what she called “corrections” to her findings—updates that included nearly 300 changes to her analysis of dozens of medical studies.

This year’s event, themed "Passport to the Moon," invites people to explore the future of lunar exploration. Eastern North Carolina’s own Christina Koch, a NASA astronaut and record-breaker who grew up in Jacksonville, will be part of the coming mission to the moon.

“We were living at Geiger Trailer Park, which were these little bitty trailers that I think Eleanor Roosevelt had arranged for World War II vets to live in,” she said, “And when we found out that we would get a house in Tarawa Terrace, we were so excited about it, because then we could get out of the little bitty trailer."

"I wish they would have just said, screw you, we're not going to do it. We don't care. Go ahead and die. Stop holding out hope. Stop making us fight. You know, I mean, it's cruel,” Cathy Makely said, “It's so cruel.”

Marvin Cox served in the United States Marine Corps from 1981 to 1985. His last duty station was Camp Lejeune. He has since been diagnosed with cancer.

Dr. Julie Horvath is the head of the Genomics & Microbiology Research Lab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and also an Associate Research Professor at North Carolina Central University. She’s studying personal hygiene and its effects on the microbes on our skin – by taking samples from people's arm pits and from the underarms of other primates.

Seventy-two years after service members were first exposed to toxic water at Camp Lejeune, and three years after the passage of the Camp Lejeune Justice Act, litigation over the resulting health impacts remains ongoing, with a new motion filed this week in an attempt to speed things up.

Nano Tyrannus lancensis was first identified in the 1940s but later largely dismissed by the paleontological community as just a younger T-rex. But the head of paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences said research has confirmed the differences between the two Tyrannosaurs were far greater than just size.

From Carolina barbeque to Cajun treats, sweets and donuts, food with a Mexican or Caribbean flair, there are dozens of food trucks feeding people in eastern North Carolina.