The 2020 Gruber Cosmology Prize recognizes Lars Hernquist, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and Volker Springel, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, for their defining contributions to cosmological simulations, a method that tests...
This month, Insights & Outcomes pays a quick visit to the ever-elusive Tully Monster, gets into the genetics of the novel coronavirus, and takes a moment to salute Yale’s picoscience prowess.
As always, you can find more science and medicine research...
A new, Yale-led study shows that some supermassive black holes actually thrive under pressure.
It has been known for some time that when distant galaxies — and the supermassive black holes within their cores — aggregate into clusters, these clusters...
Yale geophysicists reported that Earth’s ever-shifting, underground network of tectonic plates was firmly in place more than 4 billion years ago — at least a billion years earlier than scientists generally thought.
Tectonic plates are large slabs of rock...
‘Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object to pass through Earth’s solar system, has been called many things: a comet, an asteroid, a cigar-shaped spaceship.
Now it has a new description: Astronomers at Yale and the University of Chicago say it’s a...
The coronavirus pandemic has, in the words of Dr. F. Perry Wilson, a.k.a. “The Methods Man,” ushered in a “perfect storm of scientific misinformation.”
Scientists are releasing new studies at an unprecedented pace, the public is clamoring for more...
Yale researchers have found a neural home of the feeling of stress people experience, an insight that may help people deal with the debilitating sense of fear and anxiety that stress can evoke, Yale researchers report May 27 in the journal Nature...