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MEMS Professor Boyuan Chen lead a project that created a robot that could learn, through practice, what its own form can do

Working with colleagues in the School of Medicine, ECE Professor Guillermo Sapiro asked a group of adults who identified themselves as “picky eaters” to reflect on their parents’ feeding strategies when they were children to better understand which strategies were perceived as helpful and which weren’t.

Researchers looking to use wearable devices to improve health, such as BME Professor Jessilyn Dunn, are now worried that tracking women's data might do more harm than good now that Roe is no longer the law of the land.

ECE Professor Natalia Litchinitser talks about how emerging materials called chalcogenide glasses has applications in the future of UV-light-based technologies.

Jimmie Lenz provides insight into the consequences of a new SEC ruling into how institutions should treat digital assets they hold in custody. 

Lee Ferguson runs a state-of-the-art lab that can detect PFOA and PFOS compounds as low as one part per trillion (ppt) - but even that is still too high for the new EPA guidelines of .02 ppt for PFOA and .004 ppt for PFOS.

Is it a good idea to teach physics to AI to help it make novel discoveries, as ECE Professor Willie Padilla recently demonstrated with metasurface technology?

MEMS Professor Adrian Bejan says the brain’s processing speed slows as we age – caused by the greater complexity of our neural networks that means signals travel greater distances.

BME Professor Charlie Gersbach talks about how editing the epigenome might be an even more exciting prospect than editing DNA with CRISPR-based tools.

HiPEAC 2022 keynote speaker Hai "Helen" Li is the Clare Boothe Luce Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Duke. HiPEAC Blog caught up with Li in advance of the HiPEAC conference to delve into the fascinating—and now ubiquitous—topic of machine learning.

Duke risk engineers write that a key consideration in deciding whether to pursue solar radiation modification (SRM) to offset global warming should be a comparison of the extent of climate risk that the technology is able to reduce against the severity of any countervailing risks that it may engender.

Clean-tech has enormous potential to shift the waste management paradigm from treatment and disposal to resource recovery and pollutant elimination, writes Duke Engineering's Marc Deshusses.