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  1. Yale theoretical physicist A. Douglas Stone is the first Yale faculty member to win the Max Born Award for excellence in optics research.

    A. Douglas Stone
  2. Edwards, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in the FAS, will serve as acting director of the Yale Peabody Museum while director David Skelly takes a one-year leave from his role to pursue research at Yale-Myers Forest.

    Erika Edwards
  3. A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million years.

    AI-generated image of a giant hand dipping an acidity test strip into the ocean near an active volcano.
  4. A team of synthetic biologists have re-written the genetic code of an organism using a novel cellular platform for producing new classes of synthetic proteins.

    A team of synthetic biologists have re-written the genetic code of an organism using a novel cellular platform for producing new classes of synthetic proteins.
  5. A new discovery by Yale physicists provides important insights into how faint sounds entering the human cochlea can be amplified enough for us to hear them.

    AI-generated image featuring a human ear surrounded by a violin, bee, bird, and air horn, overlaid with a waveform representing audio. Created and edited by Michael S. Helfenbein using Adobe Stock.
  6. Yale’s Priyamvada Natarajan has won a prestigious astrophysics prize for her seminal work on the unseen world of black holes.

    Priyamvada Natarajan
  7. The CHIME Collaboration—which includes researchers in Wright Lab associate professor Laura Newburgh’s group—has been named the first-place winner of the 2024 Buchalter Cosmology Prize for measuring the clustering of hydrogen gas over a large region of the observable Universe.

    Laura Newburgh
  8. A new, Yale-led study has identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended.

    AI-generated image created with researcher illustration, edited by Michael S. Helfenbein.
  9. An undergraduate seminar taught by astrophysicist Meg Urry adds an artistic dimension to scientific concepts of time and space.

    Meg Urry, Israel Munson Professor of Physics and Astronomy, examines art from the perspective of astrophysics with seminar students.
  10. Yale researchers deliver insights into a pair of spiky sea creatures, the use of AI triage, and brain connections in the early stages of Alzheimer’s Disease.

    A virtual reconstruction of Punk ferox, highlighting the ancient mollusk’s top-of-the-body spikes (purple).