A Duke University graduate is an astronaut candidate with NASA. Anna Menon has previously been on a mission with Space X, and now she’s in the middle of…
Read more Duke grad is a candidate to become NASA astronautLuis Alonso Juárez (center) delivers remarks at the Legislative Building in Raleigh on Sept. 4, 2025. (Photo by Greg Childress/NC Newsline) At a press conference in Raleigh on…
Read more Duke University bus driver takes fight to remain in U.S. to RaleighMembers of the U.S. Supreme Court, seated from left: Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Samuel Alito and Elena Kagan.…
Read more Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts speaks at Duke to honor ‘pathbreaking figure’DALLAS, Texas (KTRK) — The No. 1 Houston Cougars overcame the challenges of losing Terrence Arceneaux and Joseph Tugler to injuries during the regular season, but they had…
Read more Houston Cougars end successful Big 12 debut season on bittersweet note in the Sweet 16RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — North Carolina’s NCAA tournament run ended Thursday night in an 89-87 loss to Alabama. It was a scintillating game, played in Los Angeles at…
Read more March Madness: Alabama ends UNC’s run in 89-87 Sweet 16 thrillerNo. 16 Duke travels to Doak Campbell Stadium for a game against No. 4 Florida State, hoping to make history. In 21 tries, the Duke football team has…
Read more Previewing No. 16 Duke vs. No. 4 Florida StateDuke University quarterback Riley Leonard managed to lead his team to an upset victory over Clemson University on Monday night in North Carolina, but that wasn’t enough to…
Read more Duke QB Wins Epic Victory, But Still Can’t Score Extension From His ProfessorAt the start of 2022, as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus blazed across the United States, Seema Lakdawala was in Pittsburgh, finalizing plans to open a brand-new…
Read more An Adorable Way to Study How Kids Get Each Other SickNewswise — DURHAM, N.C. — When it comes to the environmental impacts of cars, much ink has been spilled on tailpipe emissions. But there’s another environmental threat from…
Read more Rubbery Materials That Keep Their Bounce After a BeatingFor many judicial nominees, a Senate confirmation hearing is one of life’s most grueling experiences—an hours-long job interview led by lawmakers who are trying to get them to…
Read more ‘She’s Going to Be Famous for a Long Time’For as long as I have been feeding myself—which, for the record, is several decades now—I have been feeding myself fast. I bite big, in rapid succession; my…
Read more Eating Fast Is Bad for You—Right?Newswise — DURHAM, N.C. — Replacing traditional biomass-burning cookstoves across sub-Saharan Africa could save more than 463,000 lives and US $66 billion in health costs annually, according to…
Read more Abandoning wood cook stoves would be great for Africa, if families could afford itThree years into the global fight against SARS-CoV-2, the arsenal to combat long COVID remains depressingly bare. Being vaccinated seems to reduce people’s chances of developing the condition,…
Read more Trying to Stop Long COVID Before It Even StartsNewswise — DURHAM, N.C. — A team of Duke researchers has identified a group of human DNA sequences driving changes in brain development, digestion and immunity that seem…
Read more Human evolution wasn’t just the sheet music, but how it was playedCAMBRIDGE, Mass. — While there were myriad reasons Sally Kornbluth felt pulled to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it was the chance to help address some of the…
Read more Cell biologist from Duke named new president of MITIn the fall of 1988, Matthew Farrow, a 5-year-old boy with a rare blood disorder, received the world’s first transplant of umbilical-cord blood from a newborn sibling. It…
Read more Is Cord-Blood Banking Worth It?At a press briefing earlier this month, Ashish Jha, the White House’s COVID czar, laid out some pretty lofty expectations for America’s immunity this fall. “Millions” of Americans,…
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