The weekend March Madness games may have been disappointing for fans of Tobacco Road’s college basketball teams. But for the networks it was a ratings bonanza.
Three of the four top seeds of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament belong to Atlantic Coast Conference teams, capping a season that made history in the college polls.
Nike says it’s investigating why a Duke basketball star’s shoe split apart in the opening moments of Wednesday’s game against rival UNC.
A new study from Duke University shows that a massive amount of water is being used for hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. That is the process used to extract shale gas and oil.
An endangered lemur has been born in North Carolina. It's the first time in over 20 years that there's been a birth by a lemur that came directly from Madagascar.
The rare primate's name is Agatha, and she’s an aye-aye. There are only 24 of her kind in the U.S.
Rhodium, a metal made inside of a star billions of years ago, may help feed a growing population here on Earth, while helping to slow or reverse climate change in the process! And it’s all kind of by accident.
If you're a crayfish, North Carolina is where it’s at. In general, the state is among the most biologically-diverse for several reasons. Additionally, there are a couple of thoughts as to why we live in the Mudbug Mecca. In a way, crayfish are islands unto themselves. Most species carry with them Branchiobdellida, a species of worm that live life on the clawed critter.
You are you because of a unique combination of your parents’ genes, coded into the strands of DNA molecules, coiled tightly around an “X-shaped” structure. This is a chromosome, and you have 23 pairs of them, deep down in the nucleus of all 37 trillion cells in your body.
Dr. Beth Sullivan, Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at Duke University, studies chromosome rearrangements in her lab and how they may cause disease.
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