Babies who look longer at certain objects are counting, not just looking at new shapes and textures, according to a study by Yale University researchers. Karen Wynn and Paul Bloom, professors of psychology, said their study was intended to address the...
The first annual Yale Entrepreneurial Society (YES) Innovation Summit will bring together over 35 of the world’s foremost authorities in the fields of biotechnology, artificial intelligence, nanocomputing, bioterrorism, intellectual property,...
Yoram Alhassid, Yale professor of physics, has received the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, which is given to “scholars with internationally recognized academic qualifications. The award is intended as a lifelong tribute to the...
Sixteen students from Hill Regional Career High School and three students from Common Ground Charter School will represent the city in the FIRST Robotics Competition, co-sponsored by Yale University and the United Illuminating Co. Founded by Dean Kamen...
The discovery of a million-year-old skull in Ethiopia indicates that a single species of human ancestor, Homo erectus, ranged from Europe to Africa to Asia in the Pleistocene era, according to the cover article in the March 21 issue of the journal Nature...
Funding of Yale University’s flagship program for broadening access to the sciences by identifying and nurturing talented students has been renewed by Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Through the Boehringer Ingelheim Cares Foundation, Inc. the...
A Yale professor will lead the United States delegation to the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) meeting on Women in Physics, which will be held in Paris March 7-9. The delegation was formed under the auspices of The American...
The doubling of the moisture content in the stratosphere over the last 50 years was caused, at least in part, by tropical biomass burning, a Yale researcher has concluded from examining satellite weather data. Tropical biomass burning is any burning of...
Erica Woronowicz, a Ph.D. candidate in chemistry at Yale University, has been selected in a national competition to attend the 52nd Annual Meeting of Nobel Laureates and chemistry students this summer in Lindau, Germany. She is being sponsored by the U....
A slow dance lasting up to10 million years between a super-massive black hole and a smaller one culminates in a violent outflow of energy, possibly powering the bright light known as a quasar, a Yale researcher and collaborator have found. “Ours is the...