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  1. New insight into one of the basic interactions underpinning the physical world may help create a new generation of superconducting quantum materials.

  2. Wright Lab’s professor of physics Bonnie Fleming has collaborated in the composition of a new piece of music called “MicroBooNE” by David Ibbett, the first composer-in-residence at Fermilab, through a series of discussions with the composer about the science of the Micro Booster Neutrino Experiment (MicroBooNE), which is the inspiration for the piece.

  3. Spielman and two co-awardees have been recognized by the National Academy of Science for their work to find the elusive solution to the Kadison-Singer problem.

  4. Post, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, will succeed Jeannette Ickovics as dean of faculty for Singapore's Yale-NUS College, effective July 1.

  5. This month’s Yale science rundown goes deep — into ancient oceans, proteins within human cells, and the Earth’s mantle.

  6. Work by Yale economists Zack Cooper and Fiona Scott Morton exposed a pricey national problem — one that they’ve successfully lobbied Congress to solve.

  7. Jaynes, a professor of African American studies, discusses his youth in the civil rights era, the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., and his work that remains.

  8. When Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are sworn in on January 20, they will take on an array of monumental challenges: controlling COVID-19, making progress on the climate crisis, confronting racial injustice—all while contending with a fundamentally divided country. We asked faculty members who specialize in these and other subjects what research-based counsel they would give to America’s new leaders.

  9. American opposition to increased government spending crosses partisan lines. A new Yale-led study shows that it also crosses racial lines.

  10. Yale political scientist Elizabeth Nugent discusses “After Repression,” her new book on the outcome of 2011’s Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt.