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  1. 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
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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.
  6. A new Yale study offers surprising findings into the development of bacterial biofilms, the oldest form of multicellularity on the planet.

    An image of bacterial colonies lit up with red and green light.
  7. Matthew Eisaman, a global expert in the field of natural carbon capture, was remembered as a pioneering scientist and a valued colleague and mentor.

    Matthew Eisaman, Associate Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences
  8. A new Yale study describes a key mechanism that blocks egg-sperm fertilization.

    Depiction of sperm cells approaching an egg cell. Credit: Adobe Stock.
  9. It is well known that cells can adapt to changes in the environment through genetic mechanisms, but a new study finds that they also have another, quicker way to respond.

    A school of fish swim past an underwater post covered in barnacles. Credit: Adobe Stock
  10. A new study led by a Yale chemist presents a “two-in-one” catalyst that takes waste carbon and turns it into liquid methanol.

    This image shows the working mechanism of the newly designed “dual-site” catalyst turning CO2 into CO and then into methanol. Credit: Wang Lab