A recent finding that intelligence is located in a particular area of the brain is a limited approach that does little to explain the roots of intelligence, a Yale professor says. “It’s like saying the intelligence of a computer is in the silicon chip...
A memorial service will be held in the fall for E. Turan Onat, a mechanical engineering professor at Yale University. Onat died in New Haven July 4 at the age of 75. A native of Turkey, Onat received his engineering diploma in 1948 and a doctor of...
A one-cent tax on soft drinks, candy, chips and other snack foods could raise $1.8 billion for national health promotion programs aimed at reducing obesity, a Yale study shows. The tax and resulting revenue were outlined in a study published in the June...
The top official of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Administrator Carol M. Browner, will deliver a major speech at Yale April 26. Browner will deliver her address, “Protecting Public Health and the Environment into the Next Century,”...
Yale Professor Jennifer Doudna, whose leading work in structural biology provided an answer to how RNA can act like an enzyme, has been awarded the prestigious Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation. The award is made each year to...
With a box full of motors, pistons, springs, pieces of wood, metal, and other materials, Yale mechanical engineering students are building machines intended to rescue the mythological Persephone from the underworld. “Robot Wars 2000,” an annual...
A Yale research team has made a groundbreaking discovery that could make humans, livestock and crops a much less tasty meal for insects. The first insect taste receptor genes, which encode the proteins that underlie the insects’ sense of taste, have...
A recently created Web site that measures candidate preferences reveals a lack of association between respondents’ conscious and unconscious preferences. The Web site, created by investigators at Yale University and the University of Washington, shows...
Yale researchers have discovered that a critical function of each cell – passing proteins through a membrane – is performed as a duet, not a solo. An article published in the current issue of Science and featured on the cover describes the structure...
A newly discovered “Ras” protein, which is related to a group known to be a factor in nearly 30 percent of all human tumors, has been identified by a Yale professor. “There are three known Ras proteins,” said Sankar Ghosh, associate professor in the...