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A world-class team of academic researchers at Duke are working to create the first practical, scalable quantum computer.

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The 7,052-acre Duke Forest became the largest research lab on campus and home to perhaps the longest-running experiment at Duke: an 85-year study into the childhood and adolescence of a forest.

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Duke-developed “metamaterials” are carefully designed structures that control all sorts of physical waves in previously impossible ways. Our researchers are poised to make these devices a household name.

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Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface – and an untold quantity of its lifeforms – lie hidden beneath the oceans. Yet only a handful of scientific instruments are available to explore this vast wilderness, making it less understood than the Moon.