Astronomers at Yale and Caltech say that ‘Oumuamua, the much-discussed interstellar space rock, is best viewed as a comet with odd properties — and not an alien probe, as has been suggested.
‘Oumuamua is the first macroscopic object of clear interstellar...
Imagine being able to hear people whispering in the next room, while the raucous party in your own room is inaudible to the whisperers. Yale researchers have found a way to do just that — make sound flow in one direction — within a fundamental technology...
A Yale-led team of researchers is doubling down on its earlier finding of a galaxy with almost no dark matter.
In 2018, the researchers published their original study about galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 — DF2 for short — the first known galaxy to contain little or...
Priyamvada Natarajan has perfected her moonwalk.
After years of envisioning the inner workings of quasars and mapping out the likelihood of dark matter, Natarajan has cast her attention to the idea of what it would be like to walk on the moon. The result...
Cthulhu is calling from the ancient depths — and this time, researchers are only too happy to speak its name.
Researchers at Yale, Oxford, the University of Leicester, Imperial College London, and University College London have identified a 430 million-...
Nine Yale faculty members were among more than 200 individuals elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which celebrates compelling achievements in academia, business, government, and public affairs.
The new members, who include...
For the first time, Yale physicists have directly observed quantum behavior in the vibrations of a liquid body.
A great deal of ongoing research is currently devoted to discovering and exploiting quantum effects in the motion of macroscopic objects made...