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98.4

The Complexity Chasm

Misinformation is as old as human communication, but it has never traveled faster or blended more seamlessly into everyday life. It is more than just

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98.4

Trust in a Time of Suspicion

The Cold War, the period of immense competition between the victors of World War II, has always been a field of deep historical research. After

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98.4

Eugenics and Indigenous Mistrust

A century ago, Yale professor Irving Fisher founded the American Eugenics Society (AES), headquartered on the New Haven Green. In Yale’s own labs, libraries, and

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98.4

A Heavenly Heresy

How long should it take for a murder case to be closed? Ten years? Twenty? More than one thousand five hundred years after Hypatia’s death,

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98.3

The Missing Link in Our Minds

Humanity: the elusive concept that distinguishes Homo sapiens from the rest of the animal kingdom. The word has elicited an abundance of definitions, whether drawing

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98.3

Lightening the Lineage

The human body contains an astonishing variety of cell types. Digestive cells secrete enzymes to break down food, brain cells fire electrical signals to form

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98.3

The Buzz on Vision

On a summer afternoon, a bumblebee hovers before a flower. Rather than darting straight to the nectar, it performs an elaborate dance: drifting left, pausing,

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98.3

Binding Without Grinding

For decades, designing proteins to bind to specific targets has been a difficult process, with low success rates requiring extensive experimental screening. Traditionally, structural biologists

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98.3

Illuminating the Invisible

We’re all familiar with the adage of trying to find a needle in a haystack. But what if, instead, we made the needle a thousand

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98.2

Folding Fortune

Art by Aastha Paudel The geometric reasoning skills used to construct Lego structures—a grocery store, a single-family home, or even the Louvre—rarely apply in the

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98.2

The Vesicle Express

Art by Aastha Paudel and Elliot Lichtm The stomach is both a gatekeeper and a destroyer, designed to reduce everything we consume into its most

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98.2

Ordered Chaos

Art by Alondra Moreno Santana People gather en masse for many reasons—sports games, musical festivals, religious services, and protests comprise just a few examples. But

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