A first draft of the “tree of life” for the roughly 2.3 million named species of animals, plants, fungi and microbes -- from platypuses to puffballs -- has been released.A collaborative effort among ...

Logo Can Make You 'Think Different' Researchers find that even the briefest exposure to well-known brands can cause people to behave in ways that mirror those brands' traits.

Study Suggests Why Parents Stricter With Older Children A new study concludes that parents punish older children more harshly -- and they're wise to do so.

Hiroaki Matsunami led a team of scientists who systematically explored the triggers for specific odor receptors in the nose. No two people apparently smell things the same way. Photo credit - ...

Duke Study: Homework Helps Students Succeed in School, As Long as There Isn't Too Much The study, led by professor Harris Cooper, also shows that the positive correlation is much stronger for ...

How Much Water Does U.S. Fracking Really Use? Water used in fracking makes up less than 1 percent of total industrial water use nationwide, study finds ...

3-D imaging of fossils is not new. A technique called micro-computed tomography uses X-rays to create a 3-D model of a fossil from a series of cross-sectional slices, using an amped-up version of the ...

Baby's Innate Number Sense Predicts Future Math Skill Innate ability to identify quantities previews future mathematics performance ...

Church might be good for the soul, but it can be bad for one’s waistline, says a new report from Duke University. Research from Duke’s Samuel DuBois Cook Center for Social Equity shows that black men ...

Gender Gap in Math Scores Persists Ratio shrunk over the years, but boys still outnumber girls at highest scores ...

Meet the Winners of the 2022 DST Launch Seed Grants Comprising eight teams from across Duke, 20 faculty recognized for high-impact interdisciplinary projects ...

Hau-tieng Wu, M.D., Ph.D., is an associate professor of mathematics and statistical science who joined the Duke University faculty in 2017. Photo by Megan Mendenhall, Duke Photography.