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We Now Know Why It Takes Longer for Older People's Bones to Heal
January 22, 2020
Duke Health News
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Wine, Conversation and New Points of View
A Duke scholar's research on book clubs reveals that people form opinions differently on their own than they do in groups
January 21, 2020
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Female Chimps With Powerful Moms Are Less Likely to Leave Home
Benefits of mom's support can make it worthwhile to stay, despite the risks of inbreeding
January 20, 2020
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2019 Was a Banner Year for Solutions-Oriented Research at Duke
More than a billion dollars invested in new talent and expanded capacity
January 20, 2020
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Male Sparrows Are Less Intimidated by the Songs of Aging Rivals
The same singing that marks a male as “the guy to beat” at age two signals that he’s “obsolete” by age 10.
January 17, 2020
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Observing the Unobservable: Models Predict the Mechanical Origins of Earthquakes
January 17, 2020
Pratt School of Engineering
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Access for 21st Century Cures: Updating Medicare’s Approach to Coverage and Payment
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan, broad-based effort is needed to ensure better access to the robust pipeline of new medical technologies unleashed, in large part, by the 21st Century Cures Act, health care leaders and researchers write in a Health Affairs blog published Wednesday.
December 18, 2019
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New Company Formed with $130 Million to Accelerate Duke’s Drug Discovery
Healthcare Investment Firm, Deerfield Management, Launching Four Points Innovation
December 18, 2019
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Duke Flags Lowered: Scientist-Sculptor Stephen Wainwright Dies
Over more than 30 years at Duke, the discipline-straddling professor helped shape the field of biomechanics
December 16, 2019
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Why Are Giant Pandas Born So Tiny?
New clues from bones put an old theory to the test.
December 13, 2019
In the News
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The Desire for Friendship Runs Deeper in All Primates Than We Thought
A book excerpt featuring the work of Susan Alberts, an evolutionary biologist at Duke and co-director of the Amboseli Baboon Research Project, and Mark Leary, professor emeritus of Psychology & Neuroscience
January 22, 2020
Literary Hub
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The Power of Mum
Covers findings from researchers at Duke and N.C.
January 21, 2020
Cosmos
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Chimpanzee Daughters ‘Less Likely to Leave Home if Mother Is Powerful’
Covers findings from researchers at Duke and N.C.
January 21, 2020
Yahoo News UK
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Stray Dogs Have the Natural Ability to Understand Human Gestures
Quotes professor Brian Hare, founder and director of the Duke Canine Cognition Center
January 17, 2020
National Geographic
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Dikgang Moseneke to Receive Prestigious US Award
Covers an announcement by the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law School
January 17, 2020
MSN, eNCA
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The Overlooked History of Women at Work
Features an exhibition drawn from the Duke-owned collection of Lisa Unger Baskin and co-curated by Naomi L. Nelson, the director of the Rubenstein Library
January 16, 2020
New York Times
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For Fluid Equations, a Steady Flow of Progress
Features the work and comments of Alexander Kiselev, a professor of mathematics
January 14, 2020
Quanta Magazine
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Why Employee Goodwill Is the Smart Metric to Pay Attention to
Commentary by Dan Ariely, professor of psychology and behavioral economics
January 14, 2020
WIRED UK
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Scientists Assemble Frog Stem Cells Into First ‘Living Machines’
Quotes law professor Nita Farahany
January 14, 2020
Smithsonian
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Can Money Make Kids Living in Poverty Smarter?
Covers a study among whose principal investigators is Lisa Gennetian, a visiting associate professor of public policy
January 09, 2020
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