The next time you’re at the public library, be sure to make a mental note of the kid at a nearby table soaking up a biography of Albert Einstein. That kid might be the next generation’s Charles D. Brown II, quantum physicist.
Brown, who joined Yale's...
Marla Geha recently sent her “ASTR 160” students back to the drawing board for some universal truths.
While aimed at non-science majors, the lecture course, formally known as “Frontiers and Controversy in Astrophysics,” challenged students to examine some...
Seven Yale faculty members have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. It is Yale’s largest group of new AAAS fellows in a decade.
Overall, the new class of...
Yale astrophysicist Meg Urry is the inaugural winner of the Distinguished Career Award from the American Astronomical Society’s (AAS) High Energy Astrophysics Division.
Urry, the Israel Munson Professor of Physics and Astronomy in Yale’s Faculty of Arts...
Hawaii and Iceland are tourist hotspots — and it turns out they’re popular with geochemical travelers as well.
A new Yale study suggests that throughout Earth’s history, natural processes propelled measurable geochemical signals from deep inside Earth’s...
Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum today received the 2023 Jackson-Gwilt Medal from the UK-based Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) for his development of the Dragonfly Telephoto Array, an instrument that has achieved unprecedented success in the measurement...
Astronomers have discovered a galactic table for two — a pair of unusually close black holes that are feeding together after their respective galaxies collided.
The finding could have a profound impact on our understanding of later-stage galaxy mergers...
While a single piece of technology isn’t going to solve the climate crisis, there’s a new instrument at Yale that is expected to help dozens of scientists assess the benefits of natural climate solutions to alleviate catastrophic global warming.
In 2023,...
Three Yale students are among the inaugural group of Quad Fellows, a scholarship designed to build ties among the next generation of scientists and technologists.
The Quad Fellowship sponsors 100 exceptional American, Japanese, Australian, and Indian...
A piece of Yale-developed technology has helped astronomers follow the fiery trail of the so-called “hell planet,” an exoplanet located 40 light years from Earth and nicknamed for its extremely close orbit to its sun.
The EXtreme PREcision Spectrometer (...