Duke awarded four faculty with undergraduate teaching awards at the Arts & Sciences Council meeting Sept. 11: Robert B. Cox Award: Kristin Stephens-Martinez, associate professor o ...

Staunton, Virginia sits in the Shenandoah Valley like a perfectly kept secret that somehow everyone knows about but nobody talks about enough. This place has mastered the art of being spectacular ...

McLean County has one Nobel Prize winner — but oh what a one! Modern electronics rests upon Clinton Davisson’s physics experiments bombarding a block of crystalized nickel with electrons.

A breakthrough in nuclear physics at Florida Polytechnic University has created an advanced machine learning model that predicts nuclear binding energies with unprecedented accuracy, helping ...

Combining ice with salt makes the electrical charge exponentially stronger. It could be a useful power source for a more ...

A new experiment called QROCODILE, led by the University of Zurich and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has achieved record sensitivity in the hunt for light dark matter. Using superconducting ...

There was a time when drivers had to choose between soul and style or saving the planet: there were no in-between options on ...

It sounds like a strange question, but to biologists it makes all the sense in the world. Yeast cells tip the scales at about ...

Rising temperatures of the world's oceans threaten to accelerate the melting and splintering of glaciers—thereby potentially increasing the number of icebergs and, with it, the need to better ...

Wijit Thanesanurak/Shutterstock.com Addressing this noise might result in the best sensors ever created, with applications ...

In almost every intro class, someone is bound to say that psychology isn’t a “real science.” Physics is treated as rigorous, sociology as fluffy. These labels “hard” and “soft” science get tossed ...

Iowa City-based aerialist Mimi Ke teaches and performs in the Corridor, encouraging everyday Iowans to look at life from a ...