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An ancient object that Assistant Professor of Classics Jessica Lamont uses in her Yale classes may not appear menacing, but in Greek antiquity it was used for malevolent purposes.
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A new study by Yale political scientist Josh Kalla shows that experts performed little better than chance in identifying effective political messaging.
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In an interview, Yale linguist Simon Charlow discusses the interplay between linguistics and artificial intelligence.
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Marisa Bass, Professor of History of Art, discusses her new book, The Monument's End: Public Art and the Modern Republic.
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Brandon Ogbunu's public science writing earned him a 2024 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications.
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Derek Briggs, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has helped identify ancient “gold” bug fossils as a new species of arthropod.
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An 1866 photograph of objects kept by soldiers at an infamous prison offered a glimpse of wartime horrors. Jennifer Raab's new book reexamines the haunting relics.
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In a new study, a Yale sociologist examines the ways U.S. immigration law forces migrant children to make hard choices while journeying across Mexico.
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Modifi Biosciences, a Yale University spinout company formed in 2021, has developed a novel class of small molecules that target cancer cells lacking expression of a key DNA repair protein.
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Kaivan Munshi, a global leader in the field of economic development, joined the Yale faculty in 2019.