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
A world-class team of academic researchers at Duke are working to create the first practical, scalable quantum computer.| Duke Stories
From the outside, nothing about Buchanan House advertises its importance. The two-story 1920s clapboard perches on the wooded edge of the George Mason University campus, barely inviting a passing glance. But inside, in a jumble of forgotten files, Duke historian Nancy MacLean found a fresh take on a critical American story: the rise of the “radical right.”| 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
The Duke Puppy Kindergarten is a five-year project funded by the National Institute with the goal of increasing the supply of service dogs by studying the cognitive development of puppies.| Duke Stories
