Making its home near extreme temperatures of thermal vents on the ocean floor, the organism Methanopyrus kandleri harbors a molecular secret that intrigues evolutionary biologists and even HIV researchers.It turns out that the extremophile M. kandleri...
Routine screening for coronary artery disease in type 2 diabetes patients with no symptoms of angina or a history of coronary disease is unnecessary and may lead initially to more invasive and costly heart procedures, according to researchers at Yale...
After 88 days alone with the sounds of the ocean, meals of only freeze-dried rations or energy bars, and wind that blew him every which way but toward land, Paul Ridley is home. On March 29, Ridley completed a 3,500-mile solo row across the Atlantic Ocean...
The public is invited to Yale University this weekend to participate in “Science Saturdays” at which Professor Yet-Ming Chiang, a materials scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will discuss “Batteries, Transportation, and Climate Change...
“Health Care Reform: The State of the Debate,” a symposium exploring one of the most complex and controversial issues facing America today, will take place April 28, 3–5 p.m. in the Winslow Auditorium of Yale School of Public Health, 60 College St.The...
Eleven Yale faculty members have been elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering in recognition of their contributions to the advancement of science. To be elected to the academy, scientists and engineers must achieve distinction...
The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) will host a conference on “The Psychological Impact of the Threat of Contemporary Genocidal Antisemitism: From Denial and Paralysis to Understanding the Challenge” on April 28....
Led by conductor Simon Carrington, Yale Schola Cantorum, the chamber choir of the Institute of Sacred Music, will give two performances of J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor, on April 24 and 25.Both performances, the choral group’s final concerts of the season,...
Two performances of “Giasone,” the best-known opera by Italian composer Francesco Cavalli (1602–1676), will be the centerpiece of an international Cavalli conference taking place at Yale April 30–May 2. The opera and conference are presented by the Yale...
Yale University Library joined with UNESCO, the Library of Congress and 30 international institutions in Paris today to launch the World Digital Library, a website that features unique cultural materials from libraries and archives around the world.The...