Tiny tunable nanotubes

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Tiny tunable nanotubes. Duke Today, March 11, 2024. Too small to see with the naked eye, tiny cylinders of carbon atoms called nanotubes could one day be tuned for use in devices ranging from night vision goggles to more efficient solar cells, thanks to methods developed by researchers at Duke University.

The virus hunters

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The virus hunters. Duke Today, Oct. 16, 2023. Climate change isn’t just making the planet hotter. It’s also increasing the risk of viruses jumping species. Researchers working in a biodiversity hotspot in Madagascar are trying to figure out how to stop them.

Summer camp meets AI

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Summer camp meets AI. Duke Today, Aug. 22, 2023. As the first days of school approached, many teens spent their last precious days of summer sleeping in, or hanging out at the pool. But one group of Durham middle schoolers spent it playing around with artificial intelligence chatbots.

This fish doesn’t just see with its eyes. It also sees with its skin.

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This fish doesn’t just see with its eyes. It also sees with its skin. Duke Today, Aug. 22, 2023. Without a mirror, it can be hard to tell if you’re blushing, or have spinach in your teeth. But one color-changing fish has evolved a clever way to keep watch on the parts of itself that lie outside its field of view — by sensing light with its skin. Picked up by The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, Scientific American, UPI, Inverse, Popular Science, ZME Science, The Guardian and Salon.

Creating a ‘parts list’ for cancer’s spread, with help from a worm

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Creating a ‘parts list’ for cancer’s spread, with help from a worm. Duke Today, May 4, 2023. As most textbooks tell it, cells are the basic building blocks of the body. But to one research team at Duke University, cells are a jailbreak waiting to happen. Now, in a study of C. elegans worms, they’ve created a “parts list” for a cell caught in the act of making an escape — a key step in the spread of cancer.