Tian Xu, Professor and Vice Chair of Genetics A collaborative project between American and Chinese researchers developed a way to study the function of genes in mice and man by using a moveable genetic element from moths, according to a...
Weather balloon. Courtesy of NOAA The effect of the sun’s heat on weather balloons largely accounts for a data discrepancy that has long contributed to a dispute over the existence of global warming, according to a report by scientists...
Scientists at Yale and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory report the first large-scale survey of patterns of gene expression in flowers, using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, to identify the genes most likely to have critical roles in plant reproduction....
Alligator eggs hatching The development of bone structures in alligator eggs raised under varying oxygen concentrations creates a link to fossil records of the evolution of vertebrates and prehistoric atmospheric oxygen concentrations,...
Benoit Mandelbrot Benoit Mandelbrot, Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Emeritus, at Yale University has been named the 2005 recipient of the prestigious Sierpinski Prize, awarded jointly since 1974 by the Polish Mathematical...
Ivory-billed Woodpecker from Audubon Plate 66 After reviewing new sound recordings from the White River of Arkansas, an independent team of ornithologists has confirmed the existence of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Working from...
The decades-old Yale tradition of showing 35mm films on the big screen will continue this year as The Cinema at the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC), 53 Wall St., kicks off its first season on September 2.A student organization made up of undergraduates...
On September 23 and 24, scholars from Yale and beyond will gather at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, to celebrate the four-hundredth anniversary of the publication of Miguel de Cervantes’ “Don Quixote.” The two-day conference will address...
On Thursday, September 1, from 6 to 8 p.m., art will take to the streets, literally, when the Yale Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street, closes High Street to traffic and keeps its doors open to the public. The open house kick starts the season with great...
The English Language Institute at Yale University is hosting eight New Haven high school students who are recent immigrants to the United States, for a six-week summer language program that ends August 5.The students, their countries of origin and current...