Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum today received the 2023 Jackson-Gwilt Medal from the UK-based Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) for his development of the Dragonfly Telephoto Array, an instrument that has achieved unprecedented success in the measurement...
Three members of the Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences have received 2023 Sloan Research Fellowships, a prestigious award that recognizes early-career scientists and scholars who have potential to make important contributions to their field.
The three...
Say cheese, Pandora.
An international team of astronomers, including researchers from Yale, has unveiled the latest deep field image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): an unprecedented look at the region of space known as Pandora’s Cluster,...
A Yale-led research team has discovered a molecular “device” found in nature that harvests a particular sliver of the sunlight spectrum in order to convert it into chemical energy.
In a study led by Yale’s Gary Brudvig and Christopher Gisriel, and Donald...
On a Saturday in December, Yale sophomore Richie Hsiung briefly laid down his fencing foil to deliver a piercing insight into probability density — and came up big for Yale mathematics.
Hsiung, along with teammates Deyuan Li and Andrew Milas, both Yale...
Yale astronomers are on the lookout for a “runaway” black hole — a supermassive black hole that was catapulted away from the center of its host galaxy by the gravitational force of multiple black holes interacting at once.
A trail of a potential rogue...
A group of new scholars hired by the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture (YCNCC) is poised to launch a wave of innovative, multidisciplinary research programs aimed at measuring, mitigating, and adapting to the ongoing threat of climate change.
The...
Yale physicist Helen Caines has arrived at a key juncture in her long campaign to understand the “critical point” and the “strong force” of nuclear matter.
In the subatomic realm, the universe’s tiniest particles, called quarks, combine with other...
Two Yale faculty members and a Yale-affiliated researcher have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Anna Marie Pyle, Michel Devoret, and Samuel...
Yale is where Amymarie Bartholomew learned to love the lab. Now she gets to pass that feeling forward — while pursuing new science in a lab of her own.
Bartholomew, an assistant professor of chemistry in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, officially...