In a review and analysis of tobacco and food industry practices, leading researchers from Yale University and the University of Michigan pinpoint similarities in strategies used across both industries.This research, which appears in the March issue of...
With obesity reaching epidemic proportions in the United States, new research has found that an individual’s personal beliefs about the causes of weight problems are a reliable indicator of whether he or she will support public policies designed to combat...
Thierry Emonet was trained as an astrophysicist, but this winter he found himself teaching a Yale class full of biology, computer science, engineering and math students who want to learn how to predict the behavior of living organisms.The life sciences...
Noted China Central Television (CCTV) news anchor and commentator Bai Yansong will visit the campus as a Poynter Fellow on Tuesday, March 31.Bai will discuss “American Dream — Chinese Dream: The Future of U.S./China Relations Under the Obama...
Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, will give the George Herbert Walker, Jr. Lecture in International Studies at Yale on April 9.His talk, titled “A Historically Relevant Foreign Policy,” will be held at 4 p.m...
Two-year-olds with autism lack an important building block of social interaction that prompts newborn babies to pay attention to other people. Instead, these children pay attention to physical relationships between movement and sound and miss critical...
The 2009 Paul Mellon Lecture series, titled “Pen and Pencil: Writing and Painting in England, 1750–1850,” will be presented April 14–28, by Duncan Robinson, master of Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge and former director of the Yale Center...
Butterflies seem able to both attract mates and ward off predators using different sides of their wings, according to new research by Yale University biologists.Trying to find the balance between these two crucial behaviors is one of nature’s oldest...
Yale University researchers received almost $4 million from the state of Connecticut to study ways human embryonic stem cells can be used to treat ailments as diverse as spinal cord injuries, cancer and mental retardation. Five researchers received grants...
Some of the brightest colors in nature are created by tiny nanostructures with a structure similar to beer foam or a sponge, according to Yale University researchers.Most colors in nature—from the color of our skin to the green of trees—are produced by...