At the heart of almost every discussion of climate change, there is carbon. It accumulates in the atmosphere — produced primarily by the burning of fossil fuels — and if left unchecked it may lead to catastrophic consequences for life on Earth.
Humanity’s...
Priyamvada Natarajan, a Yale astrophysicist who explores cosmology, gravitational lensing, and black hole physics, is being honored with a Liberty Science Center (LSC) Genius Award for her extensive body of work mapping the unseen universe.
The awards,...
The internet is such a slowpoke.
In principle, it should operate at nearly the speed of light, which is more than 670 million miles per hour. Instead, internet data moves 37 to 100 times slower than that. The technical term for this speed gap is “network...
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, an international collaboration aimed at gathering direct images of black holes, has now set its sights close to home.
In a May 12 announcement, EHT researchers presented the first image of Sagittarius A*,...
Yale’s Class of 2020 finally got its day in the sun.
Twenty-six months and seemingly a zillion Zoom calls after they were last together on campus, members of the Class of ’20 and some members of the Class of ’21 today paraded into Old Campus in their caps...
Growing up as a scholar-athlete in Texas, Seun Omonije already knew plenty of football moves before he arrived in New Haven nearly four years ago.
But Yale taught the 22-year-old graduating senior from Silliman College a new move — the quantum pivot.
In...
Even as a youngster, José Garcia could see that education creates community.
Garcia, a 22-year-old graduating senior from Pierson College, fondly recalls the nurturing, supportive afterschool program he attended in his district library in Kissimmee, Fla...
Scientists have found a new, nanoscale link between superconductivity — the flow of electric current without a loss of energy — and a phenomenon known as charge density waves.
The discovery, which is described in the journal Science, is a tantalizing step...
A new study by investigators at the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) and Harvard shows the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus caused more excess deaths in just eight weeks than the Delta variant caused in its entire 23-week...
A Yale-led research team has turned up the heat on dinosaur metabolism — establishing that the earliest dinosaurs and pterosaurs had exceptionally high metabolic rates and were warm-blooded animals.
The findings, published May 25 in the journal Nature,...