Yale has awarded more than $1.5 million in Planetary Solutions Project Seed Grants to 23 projects across campus that are working to address climate change, biodiversity, and related health and justice issues.
The grants focus on an interdisciplinary,...
Two Yale faculty members and a Yale-affiliated researcher have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Anna Marie Pyle, Michel Devoret, and Samuel...
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...
Looking sharp in full dress uniform, Yale’s ROTC Air Force cadets and Navy midshipmen paraded before an audience of family members and dignitaries at the annual President’s Review in the John Lee Amphitheater at the Payne Whitney Gymnasium on Thursday....
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...
A medication that has been found to effectively treat the skin disease alopecia areata in adults is also successful in treating adolescent patients, according to a Yale-led clinical trial.
Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disease characterized by sudden,...
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...
On a Saturday in December, Yale sophomore Richie Hsiung briefly laid down his fencing foil to deliver a piercing insight into probability density — and came up big for Yale mathematics.
Hsiung, along with teammates Deyuan Li and Andrew Milas, both Yale...
A Yale-led research team has discovered a molecular “device” found in nature that harvests a particular sliver of the sunlight spectrum in order to convert it into chemical energy.
In a study led by Yale’s Gary Brudvig and Christopher Gisriel, and Donald...
Earth’s continental crust may have begun forming hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought, Yale scientists say — and the reason will be obvious to anyone who has ever baked a cake or a batch of cookies.
In a new study in the journal...