Victor Strandberg arrived at Duke University in 1966 from Vermont with two kids to support, a published book to his name and ...

Ashutosh Kotwal is the Fritz London Distinguished Professor of Physics at Duke University. For the last 10 years, he has been leading a worldwide effort to zero in on the mass of one of the tiniest ...

Duke University has been awarded $4.4 million from The Duke Endowment for the Duke Lemur Center (DLC), including support for ...

Custom Leadership Program Builds Next Generation of Leaders at Duke School of Nursing ...

Simon Partner: The WW II Home Front In Japan Contrary to the popular image in the West of the World War II-era Japanese as fanatically and uniformly behind the war effort, the Japanese government had ...

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As you relax and let your mind drift aimlessly, you might remember a pleasant vacation, an angry confrontation in traffic or maybe the loss of a loved one. And now a team of researchers at Duke ...

Blast-lung is a phenomenon of something Lance calls “the hot chocolate effect.” The shockwave of the blast would travel about 1500 meters per second in water, and 340 m/sec in air. ”When you mix these ...

Since her father’s death from COVID-19 in 2021, Alexy Hernandez’s days have become emotional minefields. Any small thing can be a gut punch, reminding her of what’s lost. Perhaps it’s a football ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- A sound night’s sleep grows more elusive as people get older. But what some call insomnia may actually be an age-old survival mechanism, researchers report. A study of modern ...

DURHAM, N.C. — Zoologists refer to manatees and dugongs as “sea cows” but a simple internet search might return the more playful moniker “floaty potatoes.” Now, imagine a 24,000-pound version, twice ...

Here’s a few things to consider the next time you think about throwing a plastic item in the trash, the ocean or anywhere other than a recycling bin. A recent survey suggests that every hour people ...