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  1. A new study introduces a novel way for tectonic plates — massive sheets of rock that jostle for position in the Earth’s crust and upper mantle — to bend and sink.

  2. A Yale-developed vaccine that helps more quickly identify tick bites on guinea pigs could offer humans protection against Lyme Disease and other pathogens.

  3. Yale physicist Laura Newburgh and her collaborators are honored for breakthroughs in the understanding of a mysterious phenomenon known as fast radio bursts.

  4. FAS researchers have developed an oral medication to treat diabetes that controls insulin levels while simultaneously reversing the inflammatory effects of the disease.

  5. Woo-Kyoung Ahn’s groundbreaking work on cognition has made significant contributions to the study of higher-level reasoning processes.

  6. Jennifer Klein’s research spans the fields of U.S. labor history, urban history, social movements, and political economy.

  7. Artist and scholar Royce K. Young Wolf joins the Yale community as the second Postdoctoral Associate in Native American Art and Curation.

  8. Amin Karbasi, associate professor of electrical engineering, and Mehraveh Salehi (Ph.D. ’19, Electrical Engineering) won second place at Nokia’s Bell Labs Prize ceremony Tuesday for their work on understanding how information flows in the human brain based on different cognitive tasks. The team says their innovation makes a concrete connection between artificial intelligence and natural intelligence.

  9. Stewart, a Yale Jackson Institute fellow and former diplomat, gives insight into the challenges facing Afghanistan and the future of diplomacy in the region.

  10. Finding the right elements to make metallic glasses is a time-consuming task. A team of researchers has devised a way to dramatically reduce the amount of time that it takes.