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  1. TIME Magazine highlights a recent discovery by Pieter van Dokkum, Sol Goldman Family Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics, of a pair of spiral galaxies that collided in space.

  2. 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.
  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. 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
  8. Every Fourth of July, Carnegie Corporation of New York celebrates remarkable Americans — all naturalized citizens — who have enriched and strengthened our democracy through their actions and contributions.

    Priyamvada Natarajan and Akiko Iwasaki
  9. A new study co-authored by Yale's Samuel Church, Casey Dunn, Jenn Coughlan, and other scientists sheds light on the biodiversity of the highly poisonous Portuguese Man O’ War—and may help protect beachgoers and surfers.

  10. Faculty Academy, offered by the FAS Dean’s Office SAL2 program, gives FAS faculty the opportunity to teach and take courses with their academic peers.

    Angela Lee-Smith teaching her mini-course, “You Can Learn to Read Korean Over Lunch – Really!” Photo credit: Michaela Herrmann.