This year, Ghulami’s dreams of studying engineering have come true, thanks to Duke’s Initiative for Students from the Carolinas. The program provides full tuition grants to admitted undergraduate ...

Breaking Glass in Infinite Dimensions 30 Pages of Calculations Settle a 30-Year Debate over a Mysterious New Phase of Matter ...

A first draft of the “tree of life” for the roughly 2.3 million named species of animals, plants, fungi and microbes -- from platypuses to puffballs -- has been released.A collaborative effort among ...

A study of power plants in five states has found that metals and other toxic materials are able to leach out of the unlined pits in which coal ash is currently stored. These materials have been found ...

Study Hints at Why Parrots are Great Vocal Imitators Regions of bird's brain likely duplicated at least 29 million years ago ...

Hiroaki Matsunami led a team of scientists who systematically explored the triggers for specific odor receptors in the nose. No two people apparently smell things the same way. Photo credit - ...

Paul Modrich, James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry (Story courtesy of Howard Hughes Medical Institute) The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today that Paul Modrich, a Howard Hughes ...

Logo Can Make You 'Think Different' Researchers find that even the briefest exposure to well-known brands can cause people to behave in ways that mirror those brands' traits.

The discovery of the "exercise hormone" irisin three years ago and more than 170 related papers about it since have been called into question by recent research showing they were based on flawed ...

How Much Water Does U.S. Fracking Really Use? Water used in fracking makes up less than 1 percent of total industrial water use nationwide, study finds ...

Study Suggests Why Parents Stricter With Older Children A new study concludes that parents punish older children more harshly -- and they're wise to do so.

The bearcat. The binturong. Whatever you call this shy, shaggy-haired creature from Southeast Asia, many people who have met one notice the same thing: it smells like a movie theater snack bar. Most ...