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Part of Yale’s extensive collections, the Voynich manuscript has resisted translation for more than a century. A linguist weighs in.
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It is well known that cells can adapt to changes in the environment through genetic mechanisms, but a new study finds that they also have another, quicker way to respond.
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Yale’s Amir Haji-Akbari, Tristan Geiller, Ian Moult, and Shreya Saxena have received 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships, which recognize outstanding early-career scientists and scholars.
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Emily Sellars, Assistant Professor of Political Sciences, speaks with Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies about the historical and contemporary forces driving emigration from Mexico and the dynamics between political centralization and domestic conflict.
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A new study led by a Yale chemist presents a “two-in-one” catalyst that takes waste carbon and turns it into liquid methanol.
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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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This is the first time the Yale Review, edited by FAS Professor in the Practice Meghan O'Rourke, has been named a finalist in two award categories for the American Society of Magazine Editors annual awards.
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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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Amrith, a historian who explores the intersection of human migration and global environmental history, will begin his new role on March 1.
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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.