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  1. Part of Yale’s extensive collections, the Voynich manuscript has resisted translation for more than a century. A linguist weighs in.

    Two pages of the Voynich manuscript featuring drawings of plants, animals, and people. The mysterious manuscript has resisted translation for more than a century.
  2. 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.

    A school of fish swim past an underwater post covered in barnacles. Credit: Adobe Stock
  3. 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.

    Clockwise from top left, Shreya Saxena, Tristan Geiller, Amir Haji-Akbari, and Ian Moult.
  4. 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.

    Emily Sellars
  5. A new study led by a Yale chemist presents a “two-in-one” catalyst that takes waste carbon and turns it into liquid methanol.

    This image shows the working mechanism of the newly designed “dual-site” catalyst turning CO2 into CO and then into methanol. Credit: Wang Lab
  6. Yale theoretical physicist A. Douglas Stone is the first Yale faculty member to win the Max Born Award for excellence in optics research.

    A. Douglas Stone
  7. 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.

    A headshot of Meghan O'Rourke next to the cover of the Winter 2024 issue of the Yale Review magazine, which features metallic silver high-heeled boots against a red backdrop.
  8. 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.

    Erika Edwards
  9. Amrith, a historian who explores the intersection of human migration and global environmental history, will begin his new role on March 1.

    Sunil Amrith
  10. A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million years.

    AI-generated image of a giant hand dipping an acidity test strip into the ocean near an active volcano.