Brian Penprase, a Pomona College astronomer, is a frequent presence at Yale these days, and not chiefly at the observatory.Brian Penprase says astronomers make good university leaders because they “are used to contemplating the big picture.”As a 2012-2013...
Horseshoe crabs, including the iconic Limulus we know today, have existed for more than 450 million years. Over that long history, evolutionary change has particularly affected the nature of their legs.A new fossil discovery in Britain captures a...
Jan Gruber’s travels through the academy in Europe and Asia have required the physicist-turned-biochemist to adapt to a variety of scholastic disciplines, pedagogies, and cultures. In mid-July, he found himself ensconced in a hilltop mansion on Yale...
Yale computer scientist Daniel Spielman has been named to the inaugural class of Simons Investigators, providing him and Yale’s Department of Computer Science with $660,000 over five years for curiosity-driven research.A potential five-year renewal could...
Yale University scientists have developed a new mechanism for attacking cancerous tumors that intensifies the body’s immune response while simultaneously weakening the tumor’s ability to resist it.This illustration depicts a nanolipogel administering its...
As human encroachment continues to shrink the habitable area for other animal species, a new study suggests that associated extinctions may be more severe than previously thought.(Photo by David Storch)Working with David Storch from Charles University in...