Islands jutting up from the world’s oceans provided environmental conditions necessary for early life to flourish, a new study co-authored by a Yale scientist suggests.
Significantly, the finding offers important evidence supporting one of the most...
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has presented the 2021 Michael and Sheila Held Prize to Daniel Spielman, Sterling Professor of Computer Science and professor of statistics and data science, for helping to solve a theoretical problem that had vexed...
This month, Insights & Outcomes is going deep — into ancient oceans, proteins within human cells, and the Earth’s mantle.
As always, you can find more science and medicine research news on YaleNews’ Science & Technology and Health & Medicine...
This article originally appeared in Yale Engineering Magazine.
Inside a tumor, chatter abounds. Multiple cell types are constantly communicating with each other, exchanging various types of information. Some are working together against the tumor, while...
Scientists have discovered a new twist to one of the fundamental interactions underpinning the physical world — the interplay of energy between electrons in a solid material.
It’s the interaction between electrons that is at the heart of superconductivity...
This article originally appeared in Yale Engineering Magazine.
There are a few ways we perceive food, and not all are particularly well-understood. We know that much of it happens in the olfactory bulb, a small lump of tissue between the eyes and behind...
As the world seeks solutions to the global climate crisis, many eyes are turning north — to the Arctic Ocean.
Climate scientists say Arctic regions are a key indicator of the changes that have already occurred worldwide and those yet to come. The Arctic...
This month, Insights & Outcomes calls attention to important, even elegant, discoveries that occur when Yale researchers investigate the basic science of tiny, intricate phenomena: the spinning of electrons in magnetic materials, three-dimensional...