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Duke Labs Produce 2 Intel Talent Search Finalists
By Karl Leif Bates Two North Carolina high school seniors who worked on their research projects in Duke University labs are among 40 students recently named finalists of the Intel Science Talent Search...
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Copper Nanowires Now Match Performance of Leading Competitor
Images of the first and last stages of the copper nanowire growth as seen through a transmission electron microscope. Interestingly, though not visible here, the nanowires are pink. (Photo: Shengrong...
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Bringing a Lot of Energy to Research
By Karl Leif Bates The Duke Energy Initiative‘s annual research collaboration workshop on May 5 was an update on how the campus-wide alliance of more than 130 faculty has been pursuing its goals of...
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SiNON Overcomes Barriers to Win Grand Prize
In order to win Duke’s 16th annual Start-Up Challenge, Afreen Allam only had to cross the blood-brain barrier. Entrepreneur, angel investor, and Duke parent Magdalena Yesil opening the event. Amongst a...
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Girls Get An Eye-Opening Introduction to Photonics
Demonstration of the Relationship between Solar Power and Hydrogen Fuel. Image courtesy of DukeEngineering. Last week I attended the “Exploring Light Technologies” open house hosted by the Fitzpatrick...
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When Art Tackles the Invisibly Small
Huddled in a small cinderblock room in the basement of Hudson Hall, visual artist Raewyn Turner and mechatronics engineer Brian Harris watch as Duke postdoc Nick Geitner positions a glass slide under...
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Science Meets Policy, and Maybe They Even Understand Each Other!
As we’ve seen many times, when complex scientific problems like stem cells, alternative energy or mental illness meet the policy world, things can get a little messy. Scientists generally don’t know...
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Farewell, Electrons: Future Electronics May Ride on New Three-in-One Particle
“Trion” may sound like the name of one of the theoretical particles blamed for mucking up operations aboard the Starship Enterprise. But believe it or not, trions are real — and they may soon play a...
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Stretchable, Twistable Wires for Wearable Electronics
A new conductive “felt” carries electricity even when twisted, bent and stretched. Credit: Matthew Catenacci The exercise-tracking power of a Fitbit may soon jump from your wrist and into your...
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Nature Shows a U-Turn Path to Better Solar Cells
The technical-sounding category of “light-driven charge-transfer reactions,” becomes more familiar to non-physicists when you just call it photosynthesis or solar electricity. When a molecule (in a...
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