Humble neutrinos — electrically neutral particles that glide through the universe, unaffected by the forces of nature — have helped to shape the cosmos. They play a role in nuclear fusion, radioactive decay, and the dispersal of heavy elements around the...
Every day beneath our feet, microbial decomposers tussle with soil minerals over a vast reservoir of carbon stored in the ground — and scientists know almost nothing about how this jostling plays out at the global scale.
Yet that knowledge might prove...
A research team led by a Yale astronomer has some advice for our next close encounter with a wandering, interstellar object. Check its X-rays on the way out.
Since 2017, when a mysterious space rock known as ‘Oumuamua was spotted passing through Earth’s...
Matthew Eisaman hasn’t had much of a chance yet to explore the nooks and crannies of the Yale campus. His schedule is pretty full trying to help save the planet.
Since arriving in July, Eisaman, an associate professor in the Department of Earth &...
To Jodi Sherman’s way of thinking, the Hippocratic Oath’s vow of doing no harm includes doing no harm to the planet — particularly when it comes to the sea of single-use plastic flooding the health care industry.
Sherman, an associate professor of...
The Great North American Eclipse, Part I, is coming to a telescope near you on Saturday.
More formally called an annular solar eclipse, the celestial event will chart a course through western parts of North America on Oct. 14. It will look like a ring of...
The federal government’s Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC), which provides official advice to the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation, has approved a long-range plan for nuclear physics research in the next decade — and...
“Life on Our Planet,” a new Netflix documentary series co-produced by Steven Spielberg, bears a hefty amount of Yale science DNA.
Not only does it feature the feathered dinosaur Deinonychus, identified by Yale paleontologist John Ostrom in the 1960s, and...
Researchers have found the first direct evidence of a “background” of gravitational waves in the universe — a sign that gravitational waves from slowly merging pairs of supermassive black holes, or possibly from the early universe, can be detected from...