Joan Steitz of Yale University — a pioneer in the study of RNA — is one of the first two women scientists to be named recipients of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, America’s largest prize in medicine. She will share...
Research by Yale scientists shows that males and females have essentially unisex brains — at least in flies — according to a recent report in Cell designed to identify factors that are responsible for sex differences in behavior.The researchers showed...
A team of astronomers looking at the universe’s distant past found nine young, unusually compact galaxies, each weighing in at 200 billion times the mass of the Sun. The findings appeared in the April 10 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.These...
New Ways to Harvest Energy Yale seniors will demonstrate two engineering projects on energy harvesting — a sidewalk that generates storable electrical energy as you walk on it and a human-powered iPod...
The environment will continue to deteriorate as long as capitalism continues to be the modern world’s economic engine, argues Gus Speth, dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, in his new book, The Bridge at the Edge of the World...
On Friday, April 18, U.S. Governors and top environmental officials will meet at Yale University to exchange ideas on how states and the federal government can combat global warming and develop a strategy for future action.“This is the first time such as...
T. Kyle Vanderlick, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science Yale will create a School of Engineering & Applied Science, President Richard C. Levin announced today.“Re-establishing the School of...
The Science Saturdays program for April 12 will now feature a lecture and demonstration by chemist Kurt Zilm. It will be held from 10:30 a.m. to noon in Davies Auditorium of the Becton Engineering building at 15 Prospect Street.Zilm’s talk and...
Based on everything from name calling to losing a job, perceived discrimination against overweight people is on the rise, according to a study by Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. The study published in Obesity is believed to be the...
A genetic mutation in a gene that is a marker for asthma severity may also play a role in causing the disease, researchers at Yale School of Medicine and the University of Chicago report today in the New England Journal of Medicine.“We know from a recent...