Yale scientists have been awarded competitive National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding to establish a new research center that will develop gender-sensitive treatments to aid women in quitting smoking.Sherry McKeeTobacco use is the leading preventable...
A little physics goes a long way on the tennis court. In this edition of Science Xplained, Dr. Ainissa Ramirez discusses tennis racket technology–from wood and cow intestines to carbon fiber and nylon — and the principles behind topspin.
Washington’s Puget Sound is an elaborate system of waterways teeming with life and closely linked to many people’s livelihoods.Eric Becker (Photo by John Keatley)And while all may appear well on the water’s surface, the health of the Sound is under...
A mysterious protein produced by a wide spectrum of living things is crucial in regulating the immune response to the most common form of pneumonia, a new Yale School of Medicine study shows. The study appears online in Cell Host & Microbe and in the...
Expediting primary health care for chronically ill inmates soon after release from prison results in fewer visits to hospital emergency departments, a Yale study has found. The study is published in the American Journal of Public Health.
A Yale-led team of mineral physicists has for the first time confirmed through high-pressure experiments the structure of cold-compressed graphite, a form of carbon that is comparable in hardness to its cousin, diamond, but only requires pressure to...
The ways in which screen writers, directors, producers, and actors have embraced, challenged, and shaped 20th-century American views of the West are explored in the latest exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Featured in “...
Ninety emerging leaders representing 12 countries have assembled at Yale for the Global Health Corps (GHC) Training Institute July 9-21. The two-week orientation program, held in conjunction with the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute, is designed to...