The Michael J. Fox Foundation has awarded $125,000 to Yale biomedical engineers Mark Saltzman and Michael Levene for research on the obstacles to drug delivery in regions of the brain affected by Parkinson’s disease. Saltzman and Levene will develop new...
Eleven Yale faculty members have been elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering in recognition of their contributions to the advancement of science. To be elected to the academy, scientists and engineers must achieve distinction...
The public is invited to Yale University this weekend to participate in “Science Saturdays” at which Professor Yet-Ming Chiang, a materials scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will discuss “Batteries, Transportation, and Climate Change...
Martin Jesse Klein, a historian of modern physics and former senior editor of “The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein,” passed away on March 28. He was 84 years old.At Yale, Klein was the Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of the History of Physics and...
Michael Donoghue, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, will present the keynote address, “Charles Darwin, the Tree of Life, and the Future of Biodiversity,” for the 61st annual Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Associates...
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...
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...