This year, Ghulami’s dreams of studying engineering have come true, thanks to Duke’s Initiative for Students from the Carolinas. The program provides full tuition grants to admitted undergraduate ...

Jonathan Phillips, director of energy access at Duke’s Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability, shares a photo of his wife, Sanford adjunct instructor Jennifer Chow, surveying the ...

Breaking Glass in Infinite Dimensions 30 Pages of Calculations Settle a 30-Year Debate over a Mysterious New Phase of Matter ...

Baby's Innate Number Sense Predicts Future Math Skill Innate ability to identify quantities previews future mathematics performance ...

A first draft of the “tree of life” for the roughly 2.3 million named species of animals, plants, fungi and microbes -- from platypuses to puffballs -- has been released.A collaborative effort among ...

A study of power plants in five states has found that metals and other toxic materials are able to leach out of the unlined pits in which coal ash is currently stored. These materials have been found ...

Study Hints at Why Parrots are Great Vocal Imitators Regions of bird's brain likely duplicated at least 29 million years ago ...

Paul Modrich, James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry (Story courtesy of Howard Hughes Medical Institute) The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today that Paul Modrich, a Howard Hughes ...

Logo Can Make You 'Think Different' Researchers find that even the briefest exposure to well-known brands can cause people to behave in ways that mirror those brands' traits.

Hiroaki Matsunami led a team of scientists who systematically explored the triggers for specific odor receptors in the nose. No two people apparently smell things the same way. Photo credit - ...

Clinical Trials A clinical trial is a research study where doctors test new treatments to see if they are safe and work well. At Duke, clinical trials for cancer treatments are not possible without ...

How Much Water Does U.S. Fracking Really Use? Water used in fracking makes up less than 1 percent of total industrial water use nationwide, study finds ...