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October 18, 2021
Trusted religious authorities can persuade people to reintegrate former Boko Haram fighters into Nigerian communities, according to a new study co-authored by FAS political...
October 14, 2021
FAS researchers took a novel approach to understanding a plant’s secrets. They asked one. And the answer they received — in the form of changes in the gene expression of a...
October 14, 2021
For her work in studying how matter absorbs light, Diana Qiu, assistant professor of mechanical engineering & materials science at Yale School of Engineering &...
October 13, 2021
The American Physical Society (APS) has elected FAS faculty members Keith Baker, the D. Allan Bromley Professor of Physics, and research scientist Adrian Gozar as fellows of...
October 13, 2021
Until recently, traditional economic models have struggled to incorporate spatial complexity. For Costas Arkolakis, an economics professor in the FAS, this tension has been a...
October 11, 2021
An asteroid strike 66 million years ago wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs and devastated the Earth’s forests, but tree-dwelling ancestors of primates may have survived it,...
October 11, 2021
The increased use of face coverings as a defense against COVID-19 creates social norms that encourage more people to mask up in public, according to a new study co-authored...