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Duke University

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 super-powerful MRI merged with light-sheet microscopy allows researchers to create a high-definition wiring diagram of the entire brain in mice.

Brain images just got 64 million times sharper

Categories Brain & Behavior, Technology
Child talking to a nearby Alexa device

Kids judge Alexa smarter than Roomba, but say both deserve kindness

Categories Social Sciences, Technology
Neanderthal

Ancient Humans Had Same Sense of Smell, But Different Sensitivities

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans
Genes illustration

Four genes identified as heightening risk of suicide

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

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

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

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

Categories Social Sciences
HIV virus closeup

Potential HIV Vaccine Component Proves Effective in Primate Study

Categories Health

Unraveling How Cybercriminals Extort Businesses Worldwide

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

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

Categories Life & Non-humans

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

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

Categories Physics & Mathematics, Social Sciences
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