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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.
A new study led by Duke University has found that living in a poorer neighborhood is associated with accelerated brain aging and an increased risk of dementia, regardless of an individual's income level or education.
Mar 14, 2024
As the HIV virus glides up outside a human cell to dock and possibly inject its deadly cargo of genetic code, there’s a spectacularly brief moment in which a tiny piece of its surface snaps open to begin the process of infection.
Feb 3, 2024
The researchers say MadRadar shows that manufacturers should immediately begin taking steps to better safeguard their products.
Feb 2, 2024
Conservation measures have successfully stopped declines in the African savanna elephant population across southern Africa, but the pattern varies locally, according to a new study.
Jan 6, 2024
Our memories are rich in detail: we can vividly recall the color of our home, the layout of our kitchen, or the front of our favorite café. How the brain encodes this information has long puzzled neuroscientists.
Jan 2, 2024
A speech prosthetic developed by a collaborative team of Duke neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, and engineers can translate a person’s brain signals into what they’re trying to say.
Nov 6, 2023
As rising global temperatures push Arctic icecaps into retreat, large and small sea creatures and the commercial fishing boats that follow them are also migrating northward.
Oct 20, 2023
For the past couple of decades, tens of thousands of people living in rural Sri Lanka have been devastated by kidney failure due to unclear causes, also known as CKDu.
Oct 16, 2023
Maintaining a water level between 20 and 30 centimeters below the local water table will boost southern peatlands’ carbon storage and reduce the amount of…
Sep 22, 2023
A few years ago while on a fishing trip in the Florida Keys, biologist Lori Schweikert came face to face with an unusual quick-change act.
Aug 28, 2023
At this moment in history, what topic is generating more buzz than AI? Its possibilities—and its possible implications for privacy, equity and labor—have appeared on the research horizon like a blurry new world.
Jul 26, 2023
CITATION: “Instructed Motivational States Bias Reinforcement Learning and Memory Formation,” Alyssa H.
Jul 26, 2023
A new study by researchers at Duke University has found that 17% of households in 787 communities served by the largest utilities in the United States struggle to afford basic water services.
May 10, 2023
What if it was possible to fight climate change, protect biodiversity and finance conservation, all at the same time?
Jul 1, 2022
