Through a study of African American and Chinese American populations in New York City, Yellow Peril, Black Power argues that crime can be a form of mutual aid—a set of practices around which people collaborate to secure ...

Single-family zoning protects preferences of local residents but limits housing supply, driving up home and rent prices. I study an increasingly popular middle ground approach: allowing homeowners to build accessory dwelling ...

Aire is an unconventional transcriptional regulator that upregulates the expression of thousands of genes encoding peripheral tissue antigens in medullary thymic epithelial cells (mTECs), which promotes clonal deletion or ...

Uveal melanoma is the most common primary intraocular tumor in adults, and is often characterized by poor prognosis and few effective therapeutic options. The typical site of metastasis for uveal melanoma is the liver, and ...

We consider zero-knowledge proofs, a class of cryptographic protocols by which an agent (a Prover) can prove to another agent (a Verifier) that a statement is true without revealing any additional information. For example, ...

Though development of the cerebral cortex is of singular importance to human cognition, it remains very poorly understood. Microcephaly, or "small head," is a neurodevelopmental disorder causing significantly reduced ...

The dust- and gas-rich environments of protoplanetary disks provide the raw materials needed for forming planets. The molecular gas and associated chemistry are directly tied to the resulting exoplanet architectures, ...

Abnormal accumulation of the cytoplasmic protein α-synuclein in vulnerable neurons and glial is a pathological hallmark of Parkinson’s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and multiple system atrophy, collectively termed ...