Two Yale faculty members have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Sociologist and physician Nicholas Christakis and chemist James Mayer are...
Astronomers at Yale and the University of Hong Kong have proposed a new strategy for finding the universe’s first stars — by looking for signs of their final, fiery flares.
For years, scientists have searched for direct evidence of “Population III” stars...
Barkotel Zemenu is a believer in the revelatory nature of relationships.
At the most fundamental level, he says, relationships between unseen particles form the scaffolding upon which the universe flourishes; on a more human level, relationships between...
Yale seniors took in twin messages of healing and human connection on Sunday — one from the nation’s doctor and the other from Yale President Peter Salovey, who gave his final address to students as head of the university.
During the Class Day ceremony on...
The CHASE is on to develop a new generation of liquid fuels that are activated by sunlight, and Yale researchers are helping to lead the way.
Over the past decade, basic research aimed at creating sustainable, solar-powered liquid fuel has reached a...
A new scientific model is giving researchers an unprecedented, global look at the activities of clams, worms, and other invertebrate animals that burrow at the bottom of the ocean.
And what they find may offer new insights into how these mud-churning...
In a new study, Yale researchers describe how a novel chemical compound attacks drug-resistant brain tumors without harming healthy surrounding tissue.
The research, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, is a crucial step in the...