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Male song sparrows memorize a 30-minute playlist of their recently belted tunes and use that information to curate both their current playlist and the next one. (Andy Reago and Chrissy McClarren, via Wikimedia Commons)

January 26, 2022

Birds Shuffle And Repeat Their Tunes To Keep The Audience Listening

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Alec Morlote

January 6, 2022

A Student's Love of Biology Via Fruit Flies

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lemurs head to germany

December 7, 2021

Two by Two, the Lemurs Take Germany

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Fans at a Durham Bulls game.

December 7, 2021

Why You Should Celebrate Work Accomplishments

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The Ciompi Quartet performs in Goodson Chapel during a recent lunchtime concert. Photo by Stephen Schramm.

November 29, 2021

Campus Community Savors the Return of Live Music

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Ege Kaan Duman, the first Rhodes Scholar from Duke Kunshan University, and from Turkey

November 26, 2021

Ege Kaan Duman Named Duke Kunshan's First Rhodes Scholar

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From its earliest days in the 1930s, Duke Forest offered researchers an opportunity to see how forests grow and evolve. Photo: Duke Forest.

November 22, 2021

Happy 90th, Duke Forest

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whale rising out of the ocean

November 8, 2021

Whales Eat a Lot More Than We Thought

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World Lemur Day celebration video

October 27, 2021

Lemurs Get Their Day

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No wider than a strand of hair, unicellular protists like this Paramecium bursaria could keep greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere by gobbling up bacteria that emit CO2, researchers say. Credit: Anatoly Mikhaltsov, Wikimedia Commons

October 25, 2021

Tiny Microscopic Hunters Could Be a Crystal Ball for Climate Change

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Beronda Montgomery, plant scientist

October 20, 2021

Lessons from Plants: Groundskeepers Make Great Leaders

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bees and bugs found on Duke Campus walk

October 14, 2021

A Fall Walk on Campus (Or How to Hold a Bee Without Getting Stung)

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three second-year Ph.D. students describe what their first year on campus is like

October 5, 2021

In 2021, the 2020 Ph.D. Cohort Finally Experienced Duke in Person

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Covid-19 test tubes are ready to be placed in kits and delivered to a surveillance testing site.

September 28, 2021

The Modeling Data Behind Duke's COVID Response Plan

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Research scientists Marina Blanco, Ph.D. and Lydia Greene,

September 23, 2021

Why Do You Study That? How Lemur Research Can Help Endangered Species

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September 20, 2021

Arts & Sciences Teaching Awards Celebrate Excellence Across the College

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