The National Science Foundation (NSF) has named Debra Fischer, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, director of its Division of Astronomical Sciences.
As director, Fischer will lead NSF’s mission to set...
The Yale community saw a familiar face behind the podium at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Oct. 5, when the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics was announced.
The American Physical Society (APS) has elected Keith Baker, the D. Allan Bromley Professor of Physics, and research scientist Adrian Gozar as fellows of the society.
APS is a nonprofit membership organization that advances the knowledge of physics and...
Score one for a key climate change prediction.
A multi-institutional research team led by Yale and the University of St. Andrews has confirmed a major finding of climate models regarding changes that may occur to Pacific Ocean currents — including those...
Researchers have discovered the oldest known modern crab — trapped in amber since the time of the dinosaurs.
The 100-million-year-old fossil of the crab, Cretapsara athanata, comes from Myanmar, in Southeast Asia. It fills a major gap in the fossil record...
Astronomers searching for Earth-like planets in other solar systems have made a breakthrough by taking a closer look at the surface of stars.
A new technique developed by an international team of researchers — led by Yale astronomers Rachael Roettenbacher...
This month, Insights & Outcomes roams far and wide for the latest Yale research. We start in the hippocampus, then visit with worms, check out some noteworthy ion collisions, and finish up on the membrane of a cell.
As always, you can find more...
These are boom times for Yale physicist Bonnie Fleming and the Micro Booster Neutrino Experiment (MicroBooNE).
On Oct. 27, Fleming and other leaders of the international experiment announced the first results of MicroBooNE’s search for an anomaly that...
Yale researchers are charting the course of mighty “rivers” in the sky that are holding steady in the face of climate change — for now.
In future decades, however, climate-induced changes to these atmospheric rivers could drastically increase extreme...