Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, spanning sciences, engineering, and environmental studies.
Yale researchers report that cortisol strengthens emotional memories by changing how brain networks communicate, measured in five-second fMRI trials. Each participant was scanned once on hydrocortisone and once on placebo.
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Yale's John Sous says correcting errors in physics benchmark problems lifted cutting-edge AI scores from as low as 30% to as high as 94%. Well-defined problems may be within reach, but the case that physics will follow maths is still open.
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Yale researchers built a microfluidic chip whose flexible fibers switch between two stable states, so each one can hold a bit of flow history. The Physical Review X study points to all-fluid controllers for soft robots, though the account of it describes only a chip.
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Letters from dealer Ibrahim Elias Gejou show Kish tablets from Iraqi digs on offer to the British Museum in 1909, a UCL study reports. The date sits three years before the French dig of 1912, so the letters reach about 9% of a 32-year gap in official digging.
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Caltech and Yale researchers report in Science a way to calculate the Kondo effect from a material's actual atomic and electronic structure. Their test systems, magnetic atoms in metals, are among the simplest strongly correlated materials and well short of the superconductors Caltech says the method could help simulate.
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Labor Department investigators have subpoenaed nine universities, Harvard and MIT among them, over J-1 visas held by foreign postdocs. The White House did not immediately source Vance's case, a 61% J-1 rate at the schools against a 38% national average.
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Retatrutide's 12 mg dose cut body weight 25% over 80 weeks, versus 3.9% on placebo, in a 2,339-adult phase 3 trial in NEJM. Its near-30% two-year figure comes from 532 completers, and because placebo was the only comparator, the trial cannot rank the drug against Ozempic.
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Yale-led work in The Astrophysical Journal Letters ran the ASTRID simulation without fixing black holes to galactic centres. Mergers left them off-centre for billions of years, most often in the smallest galaxies.
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A Yale-led team writing in Nature argues that crushed limestone spread on farmland across 41 percent of the contiguous United States removes more CO2 than it releases, because the acid it neutralises would have released CO2 anyway.
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Yale researchers read the original makeup of planetesimals that melted so thoroughly their textures vanished, and place the Solar System's preference for heat-formed rock beads inside the first million years.
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Yale chemists checked hydride placements in one open-shell cobalt crystal against a neutron structure, and the microcrystal electron diffractometer came closest. The comparison rests on that single compound.
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The first report from the Fed's outside review of its own Silicon Valley Bank supervision backs most of what three earlier audits found, but clears the social media posts blamed in 2023 of creating the condition depositors ran from.
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A Yale-led team could not sample planetesimals from the first million years, because every one of them melted, so it reconstructed their make-up from sulfur and iron oxidation in iron meteorites and got 8% to 17% icy dust.
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The hand, the page size and the annotation colour all match, which is how six loose leaves in a Brighton archive were fitted to Takamiya MS 20 at Yale. Sir John Gage's motives are the softer part of the case.
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A Washington State University-led team could not grow these MERS relatives, so it rebuilt their spike proteins and screened aminopeptidase N from about 30 species, finding the human version unusable and the cat, rat and elephant shrew versions open.
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A Yale group reports in Nature Catalysis that exciting CO2 in a plasma before it reaches a copper electrode yields methanol and butane, products the team says electrocatalysis alone does not make. The cell runs at room temperature.
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Getting Tesla from $1.43tn to $8.5tn means adding $7.07tn. A $1tn option package against that gap works out to 14.1 cents of every new dollar - cheap if it buys a million robotaxis, expensive if it merely buys an executive's attention.
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Weekly GPS from thousands of tracked animals, matched against anonymized phone traces from 2019 and 2020, ties human presence to shifts in range and niche for roughly two-thirds of mammal and bird species. That points management toward access as much as acreage.
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In some specimens fewer than 1% of the genome could be read, coverage most pipelines throw away. The Yale team placed those fragments against a tree of good genomes instead, which is why the museum drawer is the real finding.
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Floods in the Congo Basin's Lac Télé reserve arrive earlier and stay longer, but a year of interviews in six of 27 villages found timing and coping so village-specific that one basin-wide adaptation plan would misfire.
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