The New Science on How We Burn Calories
Features the work and comments of Herman Pontzer, an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke
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If Endangered Primates Disappear, So Will Their Parasites. That’s Actually a Problem
The extinction crisis looming for monkeys, apes and their kin could have even greater ripple effects on the tiny underappreciated species that set up camp in their bodies.
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Two Duke Brain Scientists Named Howard Hughes Investigators
Lefkowitz calls them "superbly talented and creative"
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Race, Not Job, Predicts Economic Outcomes for Black Households
Black families fared worse after the Great Recession.
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Mountaintop Mining Causes 40 Percent Loss of Aquatic Biodiversity
Environmental scan of DNA turns up 10,000 species living in streams
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NSF Creates Polymer Chemistry Optimization Center at Duke for Future Materials
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High Cholesterol Fuels Cancer By Fostering Resistance to a Form of Cell Death
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Growth-Promoting, Anti-Aging Retinal at the Root of Plant Growth Too
Plant roots and animal embryos rely on the same chemical for successful development
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FDA Approves Pfizer Vaccine. Here’s What it Means.
Margolis Center director Dr. Mark McClellan briefs the media on ramifications
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The Hobbit’s Bite Gets a Stress Test
Stone tools may have allowed Homo floresiensis to eat their meals with less chewing effort than earlier hominins.
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Dolphins Get 40s Flab, Too
Humans aren’t the only species whose metabolisms tend to slow down with age.
In the News
The Most Important Vaccine I’ll Get This Fall
Quotes Dr. Ibukun Kalu, a pediatric-infectious-disease physician at Duke
Duke Engineering Professor Analyzes the Physics of the Olympics
Links to a recent article in Academia Letters by Adrian Bejan
The Brilliant 10: The Most Innovative Up-and-Coming Minds in Science
Profiles Michael Troxel, an assistant professor of physics, who builds maps of the universe larger and more precise than any before
We Use Environmental DNA to Monitor How Human Activities Affect Life in Rivers and Streams
Commentary co-authored by Duke biology professor Emily S. Bernhardt
Seeking Solutions for NC Shoreline and Fisheries
Covers a Duke University initiative; quotes biologist Brian Silliman
Blindingly Bright Black Holes Could Help Cosmologists See Deeper Into the Universe’s Past
Features the work and comments of Dan Scolnic, a cosmologist at Duke
New Zealand’s 1973 Experience Suggests Brexit Will Be Economically Harmful For The Foreseeable Future
Covers research co-authored by political scientist Michael Munger
Kids Under 12 Participate in Vaccine Trials as Pfizer Efforts FDA Emergency Authorization
Interview with Duke pediatrician Dr. Richard Chung, whose two sons are part of different trials
Test of Time — The Most Important Failure of US COVID Response
Commentary by Michael Munger, a professor of political science, economics and public policy
Duke Developing Screening Tool to Spot People at Risk for Suicide
Covers Duke research; quotes Nathan Kimbrel, an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and a lead author