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  1. Yale researchers, including FAS faculty, study a mass extinction from the distant past, uncover hidden brain networks, and share expertise at an international meeting on enhanced weathering.

    Field team traveling to geologic outcrops of the end-Permian mass extinction in Svalbard.
  2. Michel Devoret, the Frederick W. Beinecke Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics and winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, recently returned to campus for an impromptu gathering with colleagues at the Yale Quantum Institute.

    2025 Nobel physics laureate Michel Devoret talked about his experiences as a researcher.  Photo courtesy of Yale Quantum Institute.
  3. David Breslow, Associate Professor in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, and his lab are using a genetic screening technique they developed that reveals an unprecedented view into the relationship between developing cells and disease.

    Illustration of the microscopy screening strategy. The basic steps include: 1) acquiring a microscopy image of cells with labeled cilia (green) and centrioles (magenta); 2) using AI-based image analysis to identify the cilia and centrioles within the image; 3) defining regions to target so that ciliated cells can be selectively marked by photoactivation; and 4) carrying out the photoactivation, which marks ciliated cells red and thus allows these cells to be isolated for further analysis.
  4. In a Q&A, trailblazing chemist and serial entrepreneur Craig Crews — whose third venture was recently acquired for more than $3 billion — discusses the transformative science emerging from Yale, and how bringing innovative ideas to market is good for the university and New Haven.

    Craig Crews. Photo credit: Marissa Fiorucci
  5. Rabinowitz, who recently retired after 26 years of service to Yale, is credited with the co-discovery of thousands of asteroids, the dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt, hundreds of supernovae, and other galactic transients.

    A room of colleagues celebrates David Rabinowitz (left).
  6. Bhart-Anjan Bhullar, Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has co-authored a new study with GSAS alumnus Caleb Gordon that offers insights into which animal groups’ evolutionary path brought them from the land and back to water.

    Paleontologist Caleb Gordon takes measurements of ancient turtle bones at the Yale Peabody Museum.  (Photo courtesy of Yale Peabody Museum)
  7. A look back at one of the most cited science studies of all time — Sterling Professor of Chemistry William Jorgensen’s landmark 1983 simulations of water.

    William Jorgensen helped redefine drug design with his 1983 water models.  Photo by Dan Renzetti
  8. Using machine learning, postdoctoral researcher Ran Meng and Yale researchers in the lab of Mark Gerstein, Albert L. Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, have developed a new imaging technique that can unlock signs of aging and disease in human cells.

    Ran Meng and Mark Gerstein
  9. A company utilizing an approach to capturing disease-causing proteins developed by the lab of Craig Crews, John C. Malone Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Professor of Chemistry, was recently acquired by Johnson & Johnson.

    Craig Crews
  10. In an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, Mark Gerstein (Albert L Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics; Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Computer Science and of Statistics & Data Science) writes that because powerful technologies can become destructive, artificial intelligence companies must be responsible stewards of their creations.

    Mark Gerstein