The Secret Lives of Superconductors

On April 19, Humanities in Medicine, the Duke Program in Literature, the DeWitt Wallace Center, Duke English and Duke’s Program in Education hosted “Storytelling Through Science Journalism,” a speaker event featuring Samir Patel (Pratt ‘97), the editor-and-chief of Quanta Magazine. The talk was an interesting exploration of the intersection of journalism, science and the humanities, as well as a look at the future of science journalism.

Snapshot measurements of cold-atom gases reveal hidden spin correlations that could force an update of some superconductivity theories.

The Hubble Arp Galaxy Survey turned the talents of the Hubble Space Telescope toward 216 targets in the Arp and Arp–Madore catalogs. These catalogs contain galaxies that are visibly out of equilibrium, either caught in the middle of an interaction with another galaxy, sporting strange structures, or illuminated by brilliant starbursts.

With warmer ocean temperatures, the composition of marine plankton could shift from protein-rich to carb-heavy, a new study suggests.