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...
Yale philosopher Stephen Darwall, whose work examines the foundations of ethics, moral psychology, and ethical and moral theory, is among 171 artists, writers, scholars, and scientists awarded 2023 Guggenheim Fellowships.
The awards, made annually by the...
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...
Erik Harms always likes to get to his “Introduction to Cultural Anthropology” class 20 minutes early. Like many other Yale instructors, he’ll often lay out materials for his students before each lecture and prepare a set of PowerPoint slides.
Then Harms,...
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...