Candis Watts Smith, professor of political science at Duke Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, will moderate the keynote conversation with Abby Phillip, anchor for CNN’s NewsNight , at Duke ...

The Duke Chapel Choir and soloists, accompanied by Mallarmé Music with guest conductor Dr. David Rayl, performed G.F. Handel's "Messiah" before sold-out audiences at Duke University Chapel on December ...

DURHAM, N.C. – Electricity-generating rooftop solar cells not only save on planet-warming carbon emissions, they also save a significant amount of water, say a pair of Duke University researchers who ...

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. The most you can do is live inside that hope, running down its hallways, touching the walls on both sides. Let me begin that ...

Not getting enough food, eating too much food with little nutritional value, or consuming too many foods high in sodium, saturated fats or added sugars increases risk for high blood pressure, diabetes ...

This week marks the end of an era for one of the earliest pieces of Internet history, which got its start at Duke more than 30 years ago. On May 20, Duke will shut down its Usenet server, which ...

Heat waves make it harder for crops and other plants to fight disease. New research led by Duke’s Sheng-Yang He not only reveals what knocks plant defenses down when things warm up, but also how to ...

Without a commute for the past year, Heather Rabalais discovered a new passion in running and lost 22 pounds. Photo by Alex Boerner. On most mornings, Heather Rabalais laces up her Brooks sneakers and ...

Simon Partner: The WW II Home Front In Japan Contrary to the popular image in the West of the World War II-era Japanese as fanatically and uniformly behind the war effort, the Japanese government had ...

DURHAM, N.C. — Zoologists refer to manatees and dugongs as “sea cows” but a simple internet search might return the more playful moniker “floaty potatoes.” Now, imagine a 24,000-pound version, twice ...

Hundreds of published studies over the last decade have claimed it's possible to predict an individual’s patterns of thoughts and feelings by scanning their brain in an MRI machine as they perform ...

A highly magnified view of the striatum of a mouse brain reveals neurons involved in brain circuits that govern habits. Contrary to a traffic light, neurons in the “Go” pathway of the striatum are ...