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  1. Bentley Layton, the Goff Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and a field-transforming scholar, died on March 26.

    Bentley Layton
  2. Mountaintops contain many of the world’s most diverse clusters of butterfly species, according to a new study. But climate change may turn those habitats into traps.

    Photo of a butterfly sitting atop a spiky pink flower. The butterfly, Vanessa cardui, is also known as a cosmopolitan. It is mostly white, with brown and black spots and a touch of orange on the upper area of its wings. Photo credit: Stefan Pinkert
  3. The American Association for the Advancement of Science has elected eight Yale faculty members as part of its latest class of fellows.

    Headshots of Yale faculty named AAAS fellows: top row, from left: Craig Roy, David Hafler, Leonard Milstone, and Ruth Montgomery. Second row, from left: Thomas Near, Karla Neugebauer, William Nordhaus, and Jeffrey Townsend.
  4. In a new book, FAS assistant professor Jinyi Chu shows how Russian modernists turned to Chinese art forms to expand their understanding of the universal.

    Headshot of Jinyi Chu next to the cover of his book, Fin-de-siècle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics: The Other is the Universal.
  5. A new study shows that poor audio quality in videoconferencing negatively affects listeners’ judgments of the people speaking.

    Screenshot of a video featuring Brian Scholl, Professor of Psychology in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
  6. Infants can encode specific memories, a new Yale study shows, suggesting “infantile amnesia” might be a memory retrieval problem.

    Nick Turk-Browne (left) preparing a child participant and parent for an infant MRI study in the Brain Imaging Center (now BrainWorks) at Yale University circa 2021. Photo credit: 160/90
  7. Helen Caines, Horace D. Taft Professor of Physics and a member of Yale’s Wright Lab, was recently elected the Vice-Chair of the 2025 Executive Committee for the American Physical Society Division of Nuclear Physics.

    Helen Caines
  8. A Yale anthropologist's study of a remarkably well-preserved skeleton of Mixodectes pungens offers insights into mammals’ evolutionary trajectory after non-avian dinosaur extinction.

    Illustration of Mixodectes pungens (foreground), small mammals that inhabited western North America 62 million years ago, weighed about 3 pounds, dwelled in trees, and largely dined on leaves. They inhabited the same forests as small early primates like Torrejonia wilsoni (background). Credit: Andrey Atuchin.
  9. Natarajan has also been honored with a 2025 Suffrage Science Award from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences in the UK for her pioneering contributions to astrophysics.

    Priyamvada Natarajan
  10. In a new study, Yale chemists describe an unusual method for converting carbon dioxide into the industrial compound formate.

    Illustration depicting a novel method for converting carbon dioxide (represented as circular, red and white molecules on the left) into the industrial compound formate (represented as circular, red and white molecules on the right). Image credit: Xiaofan Jia.