Inspired by the goal of continuous improvement through small steps, Working@Duke invited staff and faculty to share how they ...

High in fiber and providing essential vitamins and minerals, vegetables are the cornerstone of a healthy diet with most ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Red plums. Green melons. Purple figs. Ripe fruits come in an array of greens, yellows, oranges, browns, reds and purples. Scientists say they have new evidence that plants owe their ...

Duke pulmonary pathologist Dr. Victor Roggli wasn’t supposed to live past age 12. Diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at age 7, he ...

A team led by scientists at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering has demonstrated the first working "invisibility cloak." The cloak deflects microwave beams so they flow around a "hidden" ...

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 ...

Melinda Gates echoed Martin Luther King's call to turn our global neighborhood into a brotherhood. Photo by Les Todd/Duke University Photography President Brodhead, Trustees, members of the Duke ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Emily Ury remembers the first time she saw them. She was heading east from Columbia, North Carolina, on the flat, low-lying stretch of U.S. Highway 64 toward the Outer Banks. Sticking ...

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 ...

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 ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- You know your dog gets your gist when you point and say “go find the ball” and he scampers right to it. This knack for understanding human gestures may seem unremarkable, but it’s a ...

A translucent fruit fly larvae glows where a green fluorescent protein (GFP) is being expressed by codons that are rare in the fly genome. Only two tissues, the brain (left) and testis (right) are ...