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Steve Koonin to speak March 8
Official portrait of Steven E. Koonin, former Under-Secretary for Science of the United States Department of Energy. Credit: DOE. Want to know what we should do to address America’s energy challenges?...
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Early Primate Leaping Set Stage for Human Airtime
By Ashley Yeager Primate ancestors that leaped like a dwarf lemur may be where we got our ability to jump, a new study suggests. (Photo courtesy of Mireya Mayor and Shaquille O’Neal). Over a puddle, up...
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New Course Offers Lessons from Lasering Priceless Art
Duke graduate student Tana Villafana and chief conservator at the NC Museum of Art William Brown stand over The Crucifixion (inset). (Photo: Martin Fischer) By Erin Weeks A group of chemists at Duke...
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Copper Nanowires Now Match Performance of Leading Competitor
Images of the first and last stages of the copper nanowire growth as seen through a transmission electron microscope. Interestingly, though not visible here, the nanowires are pink. (Photo: Shengrong...
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Pain-Sensing Gene Named for Rocky
Guest Post By Sheena Faherty, graduate student in Biology How do our neurons discriminate between a punch to the face or a kiss on the cheek? Between something potentially harmful, and something...
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Seed Grants Pair Scientists at Duke and RTI International
The original intent of Funds Launching Alliances for Research Exploration (FLARE) had been to provide seed funding to one research project that joins Duke University scientists with those at RTI...
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Lemur Research Gets a Gut Check
Clinging to her mom, this baby Coquerel’s sifaka represents the only lemur species at the Duke Lemur Center known to fall prey to cryptosporidium, a microscopic parasite that causes diarrhea that can...
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Teens Have the Feels About Their Family’s Standing
A study of British twins appearing this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that an adolescent’s sense of their own family’s social and economic standing is closely...
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The SolarWinds Attack and the Future of Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is the protection of computer systems and networks in order to prevent theft of or damage to their hardware, software, or electronic data. While cybersecurity has been around since the...
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