A new, Yale-led study suggests the 21st century will see an expansion of hurricanes and typhoons into mid-latitude regions, which include major cities such as New York, Boston, Beijing, and Tokyo.
Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, the study’s...
Their legs may get more attention, but a new study says a crab’s eyes have much to offer, too — at least scientifically.
Writing in the journal iScience, paleontologists from Yale and Harvard have discovered new, unusually large optical features from a 95...
Yale President Peter Salovey and fellow Yale leaders answered student questions about COVID-19’s impact on the spring semester at a Jan. 20 virtual town hall, emphasizing a theme: thoughtful actions now can minimize disruptions in the coming months.
In...
President Peter Salovey has announced the appointments of Maurie McInnis ’90 M.A. ’96 Ph.D., president of Stony Brook University, and Marta Lourdes Tellado ’02 Ph.D., president and CEO of Consumer Reports, as successor trustees to the Yale Corporation,...
Two Yale faculty members, Donald Engelman and Debra Fischer, have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society.
Engelman is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular...
A new, Yale-led analysis suggests that the Coca-Cola Company and a number of other corporations are the real thing when it comes to publicly reporting the environmental impact of their operations — something the American health care industry would do well...
Two Yale faculty members, economist Mira Frick and chemist Sarah Slavoff, have been awarded prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships.
The two-year, $75,000 fellowships are awarded in eight scientific and technical fields: computer science, neuroscience,...
Researchers at Yale and Caltech have a bold new theory to explain how Earth transformed itself from a fiery, carbon-clouded ball of rocks into a planet capable of sustaining life.
The theory covers Earth’s earliest years and involves “weird” rocks that...
Michel Devoret, the F.W. Beinecke Professor of Applied Physics and Physics, is a co-recipient of the Micius Quantum Prize for his groundbreaking work in quantum physics — including key contributions in the development of the artificial atoms of quantum...
A new study suggests that a contributing factor in dementia may come down to a double dose of bad waste management in the brain.
A research team led by Yale, Stony Brook University, and the University of Rhode Island found that the body’s systems for...