Young Dolphins Pick Their Friends Wisely Dolphins choose childhood friends that set them up for success as adults Strategic networking is key to career success, and not just for humans. A new...
Ultra-Black Skin Allows Some Fish to Lurk Unseen Packed pigment granules help them blend in without blowing their cover. If there were a stagehand of the sea, wearing black to disappear into the darkness backstage, it...
Why Do You Study That? Worms David Sherwood studies tiny roundworms called C. elegans. They can serve as a great model for...
Glowing Worms Provide Live-Action Movies of the Body’s Internal Scaffolding Light-up proteins in the sheet-like matrix that encases tissues offer new toolkit for studying everything from kidney disease to aging. Duke University researchers have made the first time-lapse movies of the sheet-like latticework...
Lights in the Eyes for Better Disguise This hatchetfish hides from predators swimming in the shadowy depths below using a clever...
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...
