On a foggy, Friday night recently, with old hip hop songs filling the air and hundreds of happy people taking in the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, a small quantum forest sprouted up on the New Haven Green.
Dozens of illuminated beacons, each...
Researchers have found the first direct evidence of a “background” of gravitational waves in the universe — a sign that gravitational waves from slowly merging pairs of supermassive black holes, or possibly from the early universe, can be detected from...
Pinpointing when exactly animals first appeared on Earth is a bit like finding a needle in a very old, planet-sized haystack — but a new study has narrowed the search a bit.
Estimates for the arrival of Earth’s first animals — tiny, soft-bodied marine...
Just a year after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first treatment for severe alopecia areata, the federal agency has approved a second treatment for the disfiguring skin disease — both the result of pioneering research by the same...
Acclaimed poet Elizabeth Alexander ’84 returned “home” to the Yale campus for Class Day on Sunday, extolling freedom, education, and the imperative of speaking truth to power.
“If we deserve the power, the imagination, the historical perspective, the...
Lukas Flippo left his home in Amory, Mississippi, four years ago to come to Yale, and he brought his whole town with him.
Amory’s people and places, its rhythms and reveries, influenced many of Flippo’s activities at Yale, from the way he shot and edited...
Over the next five years, Yale geophysicist Jun Korenaga will be part of a scientific project funded by NASA to study the origin and early development of the Earth’s moon.
The ambitious project, known as the Center for Lunar Origin and Evolution (CLOE),...
It is folly, perhaps, to attempt to categorize or encapsulate the creative force that is Kaloyan Kolev.
Kolev, a graduating senior at Pauli Murray majoring in computer science, is a coder, a composer, a graphic designer, an essayist, and a video editor....
Yale and the University of Connecticut will use a $1 million planning grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to formally propose Connecticut as a regional hub for quantum-related research, technologies, and jobs.
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...