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  1. FAS chemists, evolutionary biologists, and geochemists make waves with their latest research and collaborations.

    Illustration of molecules on top of a background of numbers. Image credit: Michael Helfenbein.
  2. Sunil Amrith, a scholar of global environmental history, will lead Yale’s international engagement efforts.

    Sunil Amrith
  3. A Yale-led astronomy team may have discovered the first direct evidence of a supermassive black hole just after it formed — in a galaxy they’re calling “Infinity.”

    Image of the Infinity galaxy, observed with the James Webb Space Telescope. It is the result of a cosmic collision between two galaxies. The location of the possible newborn black hole is shown in the center, along with the two other black holes that were already present before the collision. Image credit: NASA, P. van Dokkum, G. Brammer.
  4. Earth.com interviews Malena Rice, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, about her recent study which maps binary stars.

    Malena Rice
  5. A Yale-led study has found that night lizards, small reptiles that inhabit North and Central America, survived the extinction event that wiped out most life on Earth — despite living near ground zero.

    Madrean tropical night lizard (Lepidophyma sylvaticum) El Cielo Biosphere Reserve, municipality of Gómez Farías, Tamaulipas, Mexico (24 May 2005).  (Photo © William L. Farr, Licensed through Creative Commons BY-SA-4.0)
  6. The evolutionary path from dinosaurs to birds included the development of a tiny wrist bone that ultimately proved crucial for stabilizing wings in flight.

    A life reconstruction of the specimen of Citipati, a dinosaur closely related to birds, analyzed with an x-ray cutaway of the specimen’s wrist. The small and rounded pisiform is highlighted in blue. Image credit: Henry S. Sharpe/University of Alberta.
  7. New visual modeling research revealed a specialized algorithm deep in the primate brain that transforms 2D images into 3D mental models.

    Hakan Yilmaz, a Ph.D. candidate in Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, with Ilker Yildirim, an assistant professor of psychology in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Photo credit: Dan Renzetti.
  8. In this edition of Humanitas, an exhibition explores the art and community of hair braiding, Yale College offers a certificate in Native American and Indigenous Studies, and a new Yale-run art space showcases local artists.

  9. A new study co-authored by Yale psychologist Melissa Ferguson finds pervasive anti-foreign biases in the United States predict voting patterns on ballot initiatives that restrict immigrant rights.

    AI-generated illustration that shows a collage of three people's headshots, each overlain by a label that says "AMERICAN" or "FOREIGNER". Illustration by Michael S. Helfenbein with Adobe Stock and AI-generated images.
  10. In a Q&A, astrophysicist Chiara Mingarelli explains how black hole mergers and quasars are helping lay the groundwork for detecting a network of gravitational waves.

    An illustration of the proposed network of gravitational waves. Image credit: NANOGrav