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Yale theoretical physicist A. Douglas Stone is the first Yale faculty member to win the Max Born Award for excellence in optics research.
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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.
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A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million years.
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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.
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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.
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Yale’s Priyamvada Natarajan has won a prestigious astrophysics prize for her seminal work on the unseen world of black holes.
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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.
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A new, Yale-led study has identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended.
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An undergraduate seminar taught by astrophysicist Meg Urry adds an artistic dimension to scientific concepts of time and space.
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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.