Duke Students Taught a Computer to Detect COVID-19 in Lung Scans A lot of illnesses can look like COVID-19 in a CT scan. Duke students built an AI tool to spot telltale signs of the virus and flag cases that swab tests miss. Coronavirus may have shut down campuses and closed labs, but that hasn’t stopped some Duke...
How a Male Fly Knows When to Make a Move on a Mate Male fruit flies dial their scent sensitivity up or down to court when conditions are right for mating -- research that could point to new ways to treat sensory processing disorders in humans. Much like people, fruit flies must decide when the time and place are right to make a move on a...
Malaria Parasite Ticks to its Own Internal Clock Research could lead to new drugs against a disease that threatens half the world’s population When a person gets malaria, a rhythmic dance takes place inside their body. The disease’s...
Embracing Something New During Uncertain Times From work skills to hobbies and home projects, Duke employees share what they’ve learned during the pandemic When the COVID-19 crisis began to reshape life at Duke, Chantia Massey found herself facing a...
Price, Kornbluth and Six Senior Faculty Join American Academy of Arts & Sciences President Vincent Price, Provost Sally Kornbluth and six other Duke faculty members have been...
Five New Bass Professors Named for Excellence in Teaching and Research Five Duke professors with demonstrated excellence in research and undergraduate instruction have...
Stream Pollution From Mountaintop Mining Doesn’t Stay Put in the Water Stream insects and the bankside spiders that eat them carry potentially toxic selenium runoff from water to land DURHAM, N.C. -- Since the 1980s, a sprawling mountaintop removal mining complex in southern West...
To Make Ultra-Black Materials That Won’t Weigh Things Down, Consider the Butterfly Some butterflies have ultra-black wings that rival the blackest materials made by humans, using wing scales that are only a fraction as thick. Here’s how they do it. Set against a piece of black construction paper, the wings of the male cattleheart butterfly...
The Wild Work of Tracking Giant Pandas Few researchers have been as successful in their fieldwork on this vulnerable species as Duke Kunshan's Binbin Li
