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The search for a rare physics event gets some noise cancelling headphones

Deep under a mountain in Italy, researchers continue to push the boundaries of science with an experiment that could rewrite the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Standard “double beta decay” is ...
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A peek inside the Yale Collection Studies Center

Emma Hartman, a paper conservator at the Yale University Art Gallery, uses a microscope while conserving a mid-18th century painting from northern India depicting a Mughal emperor. Hartman has been ...
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A growing number of U.S. adults report cognitive disability

Rates of self-reported cognitive disability among U.S. adults are on the increase, driven largely by a surprising jump among young adults ages 18 to 39, according to a new Yale study. In their ...
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‘A tipping point’: An update from the frontiers of Alzheimer’s disease research

One-third of people older than 85 in the United States are estimated to live with Alzheimer’s disease today, according to the National Institute on Aging. The condition’s characteristic long, slow ...
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Study offers measures for safeguarding brain implants

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) — implantable medical devices used to treat neurological conditions — are becoming increasingly sophisticated, making them more vulnerable to cyberattacks. The paper ...
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To ‘Infinity’ and beyond — a look at a newborn black hole

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the “Infinity” galaxy — two recently-collided galaxies that, together, look like the symbol for ...
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Was Caligula a madman? Maybe. But he also knew his medicine, scholars find

Caligula, the notoriously erratic Roman emperor known for his bloodthirsty cruelty, probably also possessed a nerd’s knowledge of medicinal plants, according to a new Yale study. The study, by the ...
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Are mitochondria the key to a healthy brain?

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where she was ...
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Yale launches Center for Civic Thought to promote thoughtful discourse

Immediately after the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, a group of 10 Yale students from a variety of backgrounds convened on campus to discuss the unthinkable. Brought together by the university’s ...
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How might AI affect architects? A Yale expert weighs in

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is automating tasks that once were the sole domain of human beings. AI-powered machines are diagnosing heart conditions, predicting the weather, and even ...
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Tracking the decline of social mobility in the U.S. — and how to reverse the trend

The American dream is fading for many in the country, but deep analyses of large data sets can point the way to how policymakers and institutions of higher education might act to change that trend, ...
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Immune markers of post-vaccination syndrome indicate future research directions

COVID-19 vaccines have been instrumental in reducing the impact of the pandemic, preventing severe illness and death, and they appear to protect against long COVID. However, some individuals have ...