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Marla Geha, professor of astronomy, reminds us that orbiting garbage is starting to clog up Earth’s satellite lanes like a halo of space waste.
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In a new Yale study researchers provide evidence that persuading white evangelical Christian vaccine holdouts to get their shots has only gotten more difficult.
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Yale College Dean Marvin Chun to honor the recipients of this year’s annual Poorvu Family Fund for Academic Innovation award in the spring.
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Frances McCall Rosenbluth, a comparative political economist and a distinguished and beloved teacher and member of the Yale community, died Nov. 20.
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Widespread megaherbivore extinctions 50,000 to 60,000 years ago had a major impact on grassland ecosystems around the world, a new Yale study reveals.
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American Sign Language course (ASL110) has been expanded from two sections to seven this fall and has added two new lectors to its previous roster of one.
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Sound Artist and Composer Spencer Topel, our 2019 Yale Quantum Institute Artist-in-Residence performed a live set of “Quantum Sound: A Live Performance of Superconductive Devices” in the Quantum Laboratories of Michel Devoret and Robert Schoelkopf for the 1st International Symposium on Quantum Computing and Musical Creativity on November 19, 2021.
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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.
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A Yale-developed vaccine that helps more quickly identify tick bites on guinea pigs could offer humans protection against Lyme Disease and other pathogens.
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Yale physicist Laura Newburgh and her collaborators are honored for breakthroughs in the understanding of a mysterious phenomenon known as fast radio bursts.