2021: The year in review
Yale News looks back at the top stories of 2021, including COVID-19 research, new initiatives, and inspiring people and projects from around the university.
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Yale News looks back at the top stories of 2021, including COVID-19 research, new initiatives, and inspiring people and projects from around the university.
Tweet This image released by Marvel Studios shows a scene from "Ant-Man and the Wasp." (Disney/Marvel Studios via AP) If science was once impervious to culture, those days are surely long gone. Also no longer with us: the concept of binary sex. Just a few years ago, the term “gender” began substituting for “sex” in common usage; from there, the word took on meaning as a form of identity. At the time, we were told gender was a social construct. The latest instruction, however, confirms the polar opposite: It’s inborn. Moreover, gender doesn’t any longer describe traditional sex; ...
It was decided on by a pair of scientists and rock star Michael Stipe.
The ant came in a small vial of ethanol, sealed in a plastic bag, and packed in a small cardboard box. It was addressed to Yale’s Douglas B. Booher. German entomologist Phillip Hoenle had discovered the ant, which he noted had some peculiar features, in a rain forest in Ecuador. Now he wanted Booher, a research associate in the Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change and the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, to confirm whether this trap ant was truly a new species. If so, Hoenle and Booher would have the honor of naming it. Booher had imagined this moment for years. He ha...
Yale University The ant came in a small vial of ethanol, sealed in a plastic bag, and packed in a small cardboard box. It was addressed to Yale’s Douglas B. Booher. German entomologist Phillip Hoenle had discovered the ant, which he noted had some peculiar features, in a rain forest in Ecuador. Now he wanted Booher, a research associate in the Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change and the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, to confirm whether this trap ant was truly a new species. If so, Hoenle and Booher would have the honor of naming it. Booher had imagined this moment ...