"When children are acquiring the symbolic system for representing numbers and learning about math in school, they're tapping into this primitive number sense," said Elizabeth Brannon, Ph.D., a ...

It turns out that parents are right to nag: To succeed in school, kids should do their homework. Duke University researchers have reviewed more than 60 research studies on homework between 1987 and ...

A first draft of the “tree of life” for the roughly 2.3 million named species of animals, plants, fungi and microbes -- from platypuses to puffballs -- has been released.A collaborative effort among ...

This website provides information about the "Duke Lacrosse Case" in which three Duke players were accused in 2006 of rape and other crimes they did not commit. It includes links to the following ...

The historical events that led to Haiti's independence -- and to the document found by Duke graduate student Julia Gaffield -- began taking shape a few years after the 1782 Treaty of Paris officially ...

Sabrina Lewandowski woke up one morning 23 years ago with a headache that should have killed her. Sabrina was diagnosed with a stage four glioblastoma multiforme – a particularly insidious brain tumor ...

The discovery of the "exercise hormone" irisin three years ago and more than 170 related papers about it since have been called into question by recent research showing they were based on flawed ...

A Duke University study of coal ash ponds near 21 power plants in five Southeastern U.S. states has found evidence that nearby surface waters and groundwater are consistently and lastingly ...

A study that examined 30 years of standardized test data from the very highest-scoring seventh-graders has found that performance differences between boys and girls have narrowed considerably, but ...

A 10-cent pill doesn't kill pain as well as a $2.50 pill, even when they are identical placebos, according to a provocative study by Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist at Duke University. "Physicians ...

Delegates gather at the 2008 Republican National Convention. What is a Primary? What is a Caucus? Can't the states just do things the same way? John Aldrich explains the differences between the two ...

People whose New Year resolutions include losing weight, starting an exercise regime or otherwise changing their behavior should look outward -- - to their environment -- - instead of relying simply ...