By limiting production in member countries, OPEC drove up oil production costs and reshaped the world’s oil industry.| Duke Stories
To get some overhead images while doing archaeology field work several years ago, Katherine McCusker rigged a camera to a weather balloon attached to a really long rope. She let the balloon drift upward, holding tight to the rope while hoping she had programmed the camera properly to snap some photos.| Duke Stories
Duke University has become a hub of research to improve the way the world protects people and water from human waste.| Duke Stories
A world-class team of academic researchers at Duke are working to create the first practical, scalable quantum computer.| Duke Stories
The 7,052-acre Duke Forest became the largest research lab on campus and home to perhaps the longest-running experiment at Duke: an 85-year study into the childhood and adolescence of a forest.| Duke Stories
Features, Research | Duke Stories
Duke-developed “metamaterials” are carefully designed structures that control all sorts of physical waves in previously impossible ways. Our researchers are poised to make these devices a household name.| Duke Stories
Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface - and an untold quantity of its lifeforms - lie hidden beneath the oceans. Yet only a handful of scientific instruments are available to explore this vast wilderness, making it less understood than the Moon.| Duke Stories
