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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.
Map of elephant population growth rates across southern Africa. Figure reproduced from Huang et al. 2024 (DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adk2896)

Protected areas for elephants work best if they are connected

Categories Life & Non-humans
Illustration of a brain with memories being encoded

Researchers identify new coding mechanism that transfers information from perception to memory

Categories Brain & Behavior
A device no bigger than a postage stamp (dotted portion within white band) packs 128 microscopic sensors that can translate brain cell activity into what someone intends to say.

Brain implant may enable communication from thoughts alone

Categories Brain & Behavior, Technology
Zooplankton, tiny sea animals at the base of the food web, are on the move in the arctic as the North Pole’s ice cap retreats. Predators, including humans and whales, will follow.

Warming waters of the Arctic could pose a threat to Pacific right whales

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Life & Non-humans
Roundup Ingredient Connected to Epidemic Levels of Chronic Kidney Disease

Roundup Ingredient Connected to Epidemic Levels of Chronic Kidney Disease

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Health
More than 70% of 2.4 million acres of evergreen shrub bogs, locally known as pocosin peatlands, were drained for agriculture and forestry along the Southeastern U.S. Coast in the last century and a half. Much of that land now lies fallow and could become an enormous carbon sink if moisture were restored.

Re-wetting peatlands could help sop up massive atmospheric carbon

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment
A pointy-snouted reef fish called the hogfish can change from white to spotted brown to reddish depending on its surroundings. Photos courtesy of Dean Kimberly and Lori Schweikert.

This Fish Doesn’t Just See With Its Eyes — It Also Sees With Its Skin

Categories Life & Non-humans
A fully recyclable transistor

Taming AI’s Outsized Electricity Appetite

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology
Telling people to plan rather than burgle an art museum boosts their memory for the perused paintings. (Credit: created using catbird.ai with the following prompt: “a thief wearing a ski mask looking at a painting in an art museum”).

This One Simple Brain Hack Might Boost Learning and Improve Mental Health

Categories Brain & Behavior
Circular DNA, thought to be an accidental byproduct, is borrowing the cell’s DNA repair mechanisms to copy itself

DNA Parasites Manipulate Cellular Machinery for Their Own Advantage

Categories Health, Life & Non-humans
Woman interacting with a desktop robot.

AI Advances Could Equip Robots to Counter Human Loneliness

Categories Social Sciences, Technology
Two infant baboons, born during one of the worst droughts of the past five decades in Amboseli, have made it to the rainy season. Their survival is still uncertain. If they make it to adulthood, they will contribute to scientists’ understanding of how early adversity affects adult health, physiology, gene expression and survival. Credit: Susan C. Alberts, Duke University

Adult Friendships Can Triumph Over Childhood Trauma, Even in Baboons

Categories Life & Non-humans
Water drop

17% of U.S. households struggle to afford basic water services, affecting 28.3 million people

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Social Sciences
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