Spotting neutrinos is a thrilling scientific endeavor in and of itself, but it may also be a matter of national security.
Neutrinos — specifically, their corresponding partner, antineutrinos — are elusive, elementary particles that pass through most of...
Yale scientists have developed a new class of antiviral agents that shows promise for creating COVID-19 therapeutics — exhibiting particular effectiveness when used in tandem with the drug remdesivir, another antiviral medication approved for use against...
It’s just possible that artificial photosynthesis is right around the corner.
Photosynthesis is the natural process by which sunlight splits water molecules into oxygen, protons, and electrons and reduces carbon dioxide down to carbohydrates. Artificial...
Lightning strikes — perhaps a quintillion of them, occurring over a billion years — may have provided sparks of life for the early Earth.
A new study by researchers at Yale and the University of Leeds contends that over time, these bolts from the blue...
This summer, a popular Yale program that provides undergraduates with valuable mathematics research experience will undergo some intriguing addition of its own.
For the first time, the Summer Undergraduate Mathematics Research at Yale (SUMRY) program will...
Hungarian mathematician László Lovász, an emeritus professor at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and co-recipient of the prestigious 2021 Abel Prize in mathematics, is renowned for his work combining math with algorithmic and computer science theory....
A Yale astronomy fellow’s star power just received a boost.
Rachael Roettenbacher has been named a 51 Pegasi b Fellow by the Heising-Simons Foundation. The prestigious fellowship, which is named for the first exoplanet discovered orbiting a Sun-like star...
It’s not often that a breakthrough in sustainable chemistry is influenced by a fan letter.
Yet that’s what happened for Yale chemist Hailiang Wang, whose lab creates small-molecule and nanomaterial catalysts that remove unwanted material from the...
It was always going to be a big lift, piecing together the story of how sauropods — the long-necked, lumbering giants of the dinosaur world — developed their remarkable, box-like heads.
But Yale paleontologists have done just that. They say their findings...
Mislav Baloković, a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, has a prime viewing spot for the most famous black hole humans have ever seen.
That would be the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87, located 55 million light...