A team of Duke students spent the summer creating a more efficient mechanism to map tobacco retailers in Durham County—which has over 250—and North Carolina, which has over 15,000.
Duke University Medical Center finished first in North Carolina and seventeenth in the country in this year’s U.S. News and World Report annual hospital rankings.
Duke physicists have finally found evidence for a 43-year-old prediction that enhances the modern understanding of the universe.
Duke researchers have found a way to make flu vaccines faster to produce and more protective against seasonal flu virus strains.
The death of “Small Town, USA” may be imminent as population demographics shift. Despite the surge in population in some parts of North Carolina, large sections of the state are shrinking, according to data from the UNC Carolina Population Center.
A pair of researchers at the Nicolas School of the Environment have discovered that an estimated 1.4 million seagulls that eat at landfills across North America are polluting nearby bodies of water.
Teens living in violent neighborhoods may have more long-term health risks than they realize, according to new research. Published in the journal Social Science & Medicine, a recent study by Duke researchers shows a correlation between exposure to violence and obesity in adolescents.
Last month Duke researchers received a 10.2 million dollar grant to study the long term impacts of early life exposure to toxins found in superfund sites.
Rush hour drivers may have more to worry about than just traffic jams, according to a recent study. Measurements made by researchers at Duke, Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology showed that car drivers and passengers were twice as exposed to air pollution as someone near the roadside.
Many social media users will go to great lengths to get "likes," whether it's spending hours to create a meme or uploading a profile picture from an exotic locale. But what if others' opinions on social media could have far more important consequences?
A recent study from the Duke Cancer Institute could signal new options for leukemia patients resistant to traditional therapies.
According to a new study, air pollution may have yet another harmful effect—reduction of solar energy production.
Duke Children’s Hospital was recently ranked among the top 50 children’s medical centers in each of the its 10 specialties by the annual U.S.
A recent study suggests that people are less likely to go along with the crowd when they are in racially-diverse groups.
"What kind of monster eats the head off the Easter bunny first?" This question posed over Easter-time chocolate led researchers in the Fuqua School of Business to investigate whether making a product too attractive can discourage consumers from using it.
Duke admits that falsified research could have “potentially affected” grant applications and the researcher involved in the fraud admits to altering data in latest court documents.
Zebrafish, a model organism already renowned for its regenerative abilities, has shown promise in yet another area of the field—spinal regeneration.
While the age-old debate of whether the chicken or the egg came first continues to remain a mystery, two Duke professors’ new project sheds light on a different poultry problem—the golden goose and its golden eggs.
A device small enough to fit in a pocket has the potential to revolutionize how cervical cancer is screened across the globe.
Megan Mullin, associate professor of environmental politics, recently co-authored an article in the Annual Review of Political Science called "Climate Change: US Public Opinion." The article discusses Americans' attitudes toward the existence of climate change. The Chronicle spoke with Mullin about the article and her views toward climate change policy and opinion. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
