If you’ve ever been to Hawaii, you probably spent your time enjoying the scenery of the beautiful islands, rather than wondering how they got to be there in the first place. But that’s just what scientists have been trying to figure out for nearly 40...
In the wake of the University of East Anglia email controversy and the start of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, there has been even more focus on climate change—and a need to clarify the science behind it—than ever. To help...
Hong Tang, an electrical engineer in the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, has earned a spot in Discover magazine’s Top 100 Stories of 2009 — which highlight “the 100 discoveries that are changing the world” — for his discovery of light’s...
Yale School of Medicine immunobiologist Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D., David W. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, has been awarded the 2010 Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical...
A team led by Yale University researchers has used nanosensors to measure cancer biomarkers in whole blood for the first time. Their findings, which appear December 13 in the advanced online publication of Nature Nanotechnology, could dramatically...
Yale School of Architecture Dean Robert A.M. Stern has announced that Katherine Farley, senior managing director of the international real estate developer Tishman-Speyer, will be the Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Architecture Fellow for the...
Yale University researchers have devised a computer model to explain how the brain makes decisions based on statistical probabilities—as, for instance, when a doctor makes a diagnosis based on several conflicting test results.In a study published online...
An international array of critics, architects and historians will convene at Yale School of Architecture January 21–23 to consider the long-term impact on design, urbanism and architectural discourse of Las Vegas—the city that Robert Venturi and Denise...
A new online resource to help busy journalists find medical experts is being introduced today by the Yale Medical Group. The new website provides easy access to 90 specialists in clinical care and scientific research. The clinical scientists profiled on...
The restaurant industry has lobbied hard against mandatory menu labeling in restaurants, highlighting the importance of a new study from Yale University measuring the impact of such regulations. Yale scientists found that calorie labels result in the...