Natural Sciences

A male ring-tailed lemur stops to sniff the scent of another lemur. Lemur males mix and match their smelly secretions to make richer, longer-lasting scents and outstink their rivals, researchers report. Photo by David Haring, Duke Lemur Center

April 19, 2016

Lemurs Mix Smelly Secretions to Make Richer, Longer-Lasting Scents

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A four-month old infant baboon rides on its mother's back near Amboseli National Park in Kenya. Early adversity, such as losing a mother before age four, reduces adult life expectancy in wild baboons by up to ten years, researchers find. Photo courtesy o

April 19, 2016

Rough Childhoods Have Ripple Effects for Baboons

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April 15, 2016

Why bearcats smell like buttery popcorn

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April 13, 2016

Duke Professor Teams Up to Crack the Glass Problem

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The binturong, or bearcat, is neither a bear nor a cat, but a shy member of the civet family that lives in the rainforests of Southeast Asia. Binturongs owe their popcorn-like scent to a chemical compound in their urine that also happens to be the major

April 13, 2016

Why Bearcats Smell Like Buttered Popcorn

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The black widow spider’s telltale red hourglass-shaped mark appears brighter and more contrasting to birds than to insects, finds a new study. The red-and-black color combination sends a “beware!” signal to predators without scaring off their prey.

February 29, 2016

Black Widows: Obvious to Predators, Stealthy to Prey

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February 22, 2016

Download and 3D-print real fossils for free

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February 22, 2016

Fictional Harry Potter clock ticks in muggle world

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February 22, 2016

12 Duke Graduates Named Fulbright Scholars

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February 22, 2016

Two Junior Faculty Named 2016 Sloan Fellows

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February 17, 2016

Free Site Lets You Download and 3-D Print Fossils

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February 15, 2016

Duke Senior Named Gates-Cambridge Scholar

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February 3, 2016

Same Switches Program Taste and Smell in Fruit Flies

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January 27, 2016

New Way to Detect Human-Animal Diseases Tested in Lemurs

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Too much elbow room raises alarm in prairie voles. Photo courtesy of Aubrey M. Kelly, Cornell University

January 19, 2016

Togetherness Relieves Stress in Prairie Voles

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January 17, 2016

Middlebury Names Colleen Fitzpatrick Next Vice President for Advancement

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