A concert to raise money for malaria relief will be held at Woolsey Hall on Saturday, December 13 from 8 to 10 pm. Performers include St Luke’s Chorus and members of the Yale Alumni Chorus. Called the “Tony Blair Faith Foundation Malaria Relief Concert,”...
By the time they complete his mechanical engineering class, Professor John Morrell’s students will have designed and built a hybrid car or a model airplane and entered them in national competitions.During the semester, the Yale undergraduates in his class...
Rather than infer that nanotechnology is safe, members of the public who learn about this novel science tend to become sharply polarized along cultural lines, according to a study conducted by the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School in...
For over six decades, Yale scientist Talbot Waterman has been bringing insights into how aquatic animals use polarized light — i.e., the directional orientation of light that indicates the sun’s position in the sky — to navigate underwater.Waterman, 94,...
Youngsters and adults alike will soon be able to tour the cosmos without leaving their seats, thanks to the opening of a new planetarium at Yale’s Leitner Family Observatory, 355 Prospect St. The renamed Leitner Family Observatory and Planetarium is set...
People do act as if it is better to give than receive, but perhaps not for purely altruistic reasons, Yale researchers report. People are much more likely to offer help such as providing a ride to the train station to a casual friend than to ask for...
Like a well-trained army, the fundamental biological processes of organisms are coordinated through a hierarchy of finely tuned molecular commands. In a new paper published online Dec. 18 in the journal Genes and Development, Yale University researchers...
Jeremy Gray, a psychologist at Yale University, is one of 20 young scientists who are winners of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Science and Engineers. The awards, given by the White House in consultation with the National Science Foundation and...