Concrete Steps to Diversify the Scientific Workforce
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Ghost Forests Creeping Along East Coast Can Be Seen From Space. What Causes Them?
Covers Duke research; quotes study co-author Emily Ury, a Ph.
Study: Climate Change Shrinks Marine Life Richness Near Equator
Quotes professor Stuart Pimm, a conservation scientist at Duke
Beaked Whales Are the Animals We Need Right Now
Quotes Nicola J. Quick, a Duke Marine Lab research scientist, and Andreas Fahlman.
Researchers Are Hatching a Low-Cost Coronavirus Vaccine
Quotes Andrea Taylor, assistant director of the Duke Global Health Innovation Center
How Studying Lemur Hibernation Could Make Long-Distance Space Travel Easier One Day
Features a study by Duke Lemur Center researchers; quotes lead author Marina Blanco, a primate biologist
Future Environmental Sentinels Could Be Duke Engineers’ ‘Soft’ Robots
Quotes Shyni Varghese, professor of biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering and materials science, and orthopaedic surgery
Why We Romanticize the Past
Quotes Felipe de Brigard, a professor of philosophy, psychology and neuroscience
COVID Showed How Trials for New Drugs Could Be Faster and Better
Quotes John H. Alexander, a cardiologist and senior researcher at the Duke Clinical Research Institute
Bonobos Offer Clues to Why Humans Evolved to Value Niceness
Reports on research conducted by Duke evolutionary anthropologist Brian Hare and a colleague in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Pfizer Launches COVID Vaccine Trial for Kids Under 12
Quotes Dr. Emmanuel Walter, chief medical officer of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute, and Dr. Susanna Naggie, associate professor of medicine