How to Save Billions of Gallons of Water: Replace Coal With Gas or Renewables
Switch to natural gas would save 12,000 billion gallons a year by 2030; switching to solar or wind power would yield even greater savings. The…
Switch to natural gas would save 12,000 billion gallons a year by 2030; switching to solar or wind power would yield even greater savings. The…
Design would enable thermophotovoltaic devices that convert waste heat to electricity. Durham, N.C. — Electrical engineers at Duke University have harnessed the power of machine…
Duke engineers have grown the first functioning human muscle from non-muscle cells — in this case skin cells reverted to their primordial stem cell state….
Materials scientists at Duke University have developed a method to create hybrid thin-film materials that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to make. The technique…
The three domains of life — archaea, bacteria, and eukarya — may have more in common than previously thought. Over the past several years, Ariel…
This movie depicts cells being stretched by cavitation bubbles sent from various distances over a 3.5 minute span. The calcium responses of cells are at…
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have created a fully functioning artificial human heart muscle large enough to patch over damage typically seen in patients who…
New research from NASA and Duke University provides new evidence that natural cycles alone aren’t sufficient to explain the global atmospheric warming observed over the…
A new study from Duke University provides a close-up of synapse refinement and identifies that the protein hevin is crucial in this process. Durham, North…
A team of engineers has developed a new synthetic material that can change its fluorescence and texture in response to a change in voltage applied…
Biomedical engineers from Duke University have grown living skeletal muscle that demonstrates the ability to heal itself both inside the laboratory and inside an animal….
A new genomic test developed by researchers at Duke University School of Medicine can accurately sort between viral and bacterial infections, possibly helping to limit…
Using materials fabricated from gold particles and light-sensitive molecules of porphyin, researchers have developed a new method for harvesting energy from light. Researchers from the…
In a newly published study, Duke University researchers detail how they electronically linked the brains of rats for the first time, allowing them to communicate…
By developing a method to reversibly control the crumpling and unfolding of large-area graphene sheets, researchers at Duke University were able to demonstrate that crumpled…
Researchers at Duke University found that a molecule made with a polynorbornene backbone can act as a lever to open a ring embedded within the…
Scientists have been able to successfully cloak an object, rendering a centimeter-scale cylinder invisible to microwaves. Many different invisibility cloaks have been demonstrated, but all…
It appears that deafness penetrates much more rapidly and deeply into the brain than previously thought. While studying songbirds, neurologists discovered that when their hearing…