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Home of the Blue Devils, Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world.
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Ancient Humans Had Same Sense of Smell, But Different Sensitivities

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Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans
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Four genes identified as heightening risk of suicide

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Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

Traveling with friends helps even mixed-up butterflies find their way

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Categories Life & Non-humans
Researchers who analyzed bottom sediments from five North Carolina lakes near coal-fired power plants say coal ash contamination has entered the lakes by three different routes.

Lake sediments show decades of coal ash contamination

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Categories Earth, Energy & Environment
Christine Moorman is a marketing professor at the Fuqua School of Business and founder and director of The CMO Survey.

Inflation Drives Companies to Spend Less on Marketing, Offer More Value

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Categories Social Sciences
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Potential HIV Vaccine Component Proves Effective in Primate Study

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Categories Health

Unraveling How Cybercriminals Extort Businesses Worldwide

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Categories Social Sciences, Technology
A Duke University-led research team has used acoustic tags to eavesdrop on pilot whales as they forage in waters off Cape Hatteras, N.C. Vocalizations and echoes recorded by the tags reveals the whales alter their hunting behaviors based on the local environment, a trait that may contribute to the species’ success in adapting to shifting prey distributions and other changes now occurring in the world’s oceans.

Pilot Whales Adapt Foraging Strategies to Suit the Situation

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Categories Life & Non-humans
Four surviving members of the sea cow family tree are compared to Stellar’s sea cow, an Aleutian animal nearly twice the size of an African elephant that was hunted to extinction two centuries ago. (Christy Horton from Heritage & Sieffert, PeerJ Fig. 1)

New Research Tracks the History of Manatees Across Earth’s Oceans

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Categories Life & Non-humans

Lemur Gut Isn’t One Ecosystem, It’s Many

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Categories Life & Non-humans
To limit misinformation, some social networks have limited how widely users can share posts. Image by Gerd Altmann via Pixabay.

Economists Have a Method for Reducing Fake News on Social Media

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Categories Physics & Mathematics, Social Sciences
Researchers estimate the number of people with dementia will nearly triple to more than 152 million by 2050. The highest increase in prevalence is projected to be in eastern sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and the Middle East.

Could a Common Heart Medication Prevent Dementia?

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Categories Brain & Behavior
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