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5/24/23 Materials Today

New Electrolyte Material Identifies as Both Solid and Liquid

MEMS Professor Olivier Delaire has helped uncover the atomic mechanisms that make a class of compounds called argyrodites attractive candidates for both solid-state battery electrolytes and thermoelectric energy converters.

4/24/23 BBC World Service CrowdScience

Do We Have a Sense of Time?

CrowdScience listener Marie, in Sweden, has always had trouble with time. She wants to know if time is a sense, like our other senses. Duke professor Adrian Bejan answers.

4/11/23 The New York Times

Can Intelligence Be Separated From the Body?

MEMS Professor Boyuan Chen has some thoughts on whether AI can ever truly be intelligent without a body to interact with the world. “I believe that intelligence can’t be born without having the perspective of physical embodiments.”

12/7/22 The Atlantic

The Transcendent Brain

Adrian Bejan offers an evolutionary explanation, based on the eye and the brain, as to why we find the golden ratio so appealing.