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Weird Science
6/13/24 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
6/3/24 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
5/20/24 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
5/20/24 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