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Weird Science
6/13 Duke Magazine

Weird Science

David Smith studies metamaterials and how they turn our understanding of physics inside out

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Streamlining Military Personal and Equipment Readiness
6/3 Pratt School of Engineering

Streamlining Military Personal and Equipment Readiness

A Duke Engineering class launched a software startup called EZTrain that is poised to become a regular feature across several military branches

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Learning Coding Basics by Building PB&Js
5/20 Pratt School of Engineering

Learning Coding Basics by Building PB&Js

Adam Davidson recently led an outreach program that taught fourth grade students the fundamentals of coding through defining each step needed to build a classic peanut butter and jelly sandwich

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A Quantum Leap in Factoring
5/20 Communications of the ACM

A Quantum Leap in Factoring

Kenneth Brown comments on an algorithm for quantum computing that recently had its greatest theoretical advance in more than 25 years

Pratt School of Engineering
Wreaking Havoc on Academic Publishing
5/14 Inside Higher Ed

Wreaking Havoc on Academic Publishing

Without changes, thousands of academic papers could be sent to chatbots as reviewers without the knowledge of the authors, Cynthia Rudin warns.