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Do We Have a Sense of Time?
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.

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Helping Duke Engineers Share Their Stories
4/19/23 Pratt School of Engineering

Helping Duke Engineers Share Their Stories

New programming in Duke Engineering’s Graduate Communications and Intercultural Programs focuses on science communications

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Can Intelligence Be Separated From the Body?
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.”

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Putting the SE Back in Silicon Electronics
3/8/23 Pratt School of Engineering

Putting the SE Back in Silicon Electronics

Researchers gathered at Duke to answer the CHIPS and Science Act’s call to reinvigorate the nation’s silicon-related research and manufacturing abilities

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Brain Tumour Discovery Paves Way for New Drug Treatments
3/7/23 University of Nottingham

Brain Tumour Discovery Paves Way for New Drug Treatments

MEMS prof David Needham and colleagues are working to confirm that some brain tumors feature high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors, which could inform therapeutics

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Duke Engineering: Then & Now
2/20/23 Pratt School of Engineering

Duke Engineering: Then & Now

As part of National Engineers Week, take a look at how Duke Engineering has changed and grown over the years