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  1. A new discovery by Yale physicists provides important insights into how faint sounds entering the human cochlea can be amplified enough for us to hear them.

    AI-generated image featuring a human ear surrounded by a violin, bee, bird, and air horn, overlaid with a waveform representing audio. Created and edited by Michael S. Helfenbein using Adobe Stock.
  2. Nick Turk-Browne, director of Yale’s Wu Tsai Institute, was recognized by the National Academy of Sciences for his innovative research on learning and memory.

    Nick Turk-Browne
  3. Jennifer Gandhi, a political scientist who joined the Yale faculty in 2022, studies authoritarian regimes and transitions to democracy.

    Jennifer Gandhi
  4. In a Q&A, Olivia Lott discusses what drew her to study Latin American literature, her efforts to translate little-known works, and why she chose to do this work at Yale.

    Olivia Lott
  5. Greg Gandin, Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History, writes about a new era of American imperialism for the New York Times.

    Illustration by Daniel Jurman/New York Times.
  6. Yale’s Priyamvada Natarajan has won a prestigious astrophysics prize for her seminal work on the unseen world of black holes.

    Priyamvada Natarajan
  7. The CHIME Collaboration—which includes researchers in Wright Lab associate professor Laura Newburgh’s group—has been named the first-place winner of the 2024 Buchalter Cosmology Prize for measuring the clustering of hydrogen gas over a large region of the observable Universe.

    Laura Newburgh
  8. Lamont was honored for her first book, which examines the use of curse tablets in ancient Greece and beyond.

    Jessica Lamont
  9. A new, Yale-led study has identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended.

    AI-generated image created with researcher illustration, edited by Michael S. Helfenbein.
  10. In a Q&A, Yale’s Stephen Darwall discusses his philosophical analysis of heartfelt phenomena — and the difference between attitudes of the heart and the will.

    A portrait of Stephen Darwall alongside the cover of his book, The Heart & Its Attitudes.