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Small robots can't hold a candle to the fastest-jumping insects and other tiny-but-powerful creatures. A new mathematical model helps explain why, and how they might get closer. High-speed video of a jumping flea by Gregory Sutton and Malcolm Burrows.

April 26, 2018

Why a Robot Can't Yet Outjump a Flea

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The threadfin dragonfish lives more than two miles deep in the eastern Atlantic. Photo by Sonke Johnson

April 22, 2018

How Deep-Sea Fish Are So Exceptionally Black

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Emilie Snell-Rood

April 18, 2018

Better Butterfly Learners Take Longer to Grow Up

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New faculty members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, from left: Nathaniel Mackey; Richard Powell; Guillermo R. Sapiro; and Fred Nijhout.

April 18, 2018

Four Faculty Members Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

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Goldwater Scholars: Samantha Bouchal, Shomik Verma and Pranav Warman

April 4, 2018

Two Duke Juniors, One Sophomore Named Goldwater Scholars

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Duke biologist Alejandro Berrio creates larger-than-life insect sculptures. This wooden mantis was exhibited at the Art Science Gallery in Austin, Texas in 2013.

March 29, 2018

Who Doesn't Love Giant Bugs?

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The formation of the synaptonemal complex

March 28, 2018

DNA Breakage: What Doesn’t Kill You…

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March 22, 2018

Duke Flags Lowered: Nicholas Gillham, Leading Duke Geneticist, Dies at Age 85

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summer course at the University of Utah on stable isotope ecology

March 21, 2018

What a Baleen Tells Us About the Story of a Whale Species

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The color-changing hogfish can “see” with its skin -- an ability that likely evolved separately from light-sensing in the eyes, researchers say. Photo by Sander van der Wel, Wikimedia Commons.

March 12, 2018

How the Color-Changing Hogfish ‘Sees’ With Its Skin

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 I Go to Duke. Do I Have to Care About Basketball?

March 5, 2018

Elizabeth Anne Brown: I Go to Duke. Do I Have to Care About Basketball?

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The Egyptian fruit bat proved the perfect subject for studies of mammalian navigation.

February 19, 2018

How A Bat’s Brain Navigates

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Biology professor Tom Mitchell-Olds has devoted his career to using science to aid in the fight against global hunger.

February 18, 2018

Blue Devil of the Week: Fighting Hunger with Science

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February 8, 2018

Why Study Mouse Lemurs?

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psychedelic shrimp

February 5, 2018

Researchers Get Superman’s X-ray Vision, and They're Using It to Study Shrimp

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Do 'Fast And Furious' Movies Cause A Rise In Speeding?

January 30, 2018

Aakash Jain: Do 'Fast And Furious' Movies Cause A Rise In Speeding?

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