The Great North American Eclipse, Part I, is coming to a telescope near you on Saturday.
More formally called an annular solar eclipse, the celestial event will chart a course through western parts of North America on Oct. 14. It will look like a ring of...
To Jodi Sherman’s way of thinking, the Hippocratic Oath’s vow of doing no harm includes doing no harm to the planet — particularly when it comes to the sea of single-use plastic flooding the health care industry.
Sherman, an associate professor of...
Scientists at Yale and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) say they’ve hit the jackpot with some valuable new information about the story of gold.
It’s a story that begins with violent collisions of large objects in space, continues in a half-melted...
Matthew Eisaman hasn’t had much of a chance yet to explore the nooks and crannies of the Yale campus. His schedule is pretty full trying to help save the planet.
Since arriving in July, Eisaman, an associate professor in the Department of Earth &...
A research team led by a Yale astronomer has some advice for our next close encounter with a wandering, interstellar object. Check its X-rays on the way out.
Since 2017, when a mysterious space rock known as ‘Oumuamua was spotted passing through Earth’s...
Every day beneath our feet, microbial decomposers tussle with soil minerals over a vast reservoir of carbon stored in the ground — and scientists know almost nothing about how this jostling plays out at the global scale.
Yet that knowledge might prove...
William Jorgensen, Sterling Professor of Chemistry in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been named the recipient of the American Chemical Society’s 2024 Arthur C. Cope Award for his ongoing achievements in organic chemistry.
The Cope Award,...
Humble neutrinos — electrically neutral particles that glide through the universe, unaffected by the forces of nature — have helped to shape the cosmos. They play a role in nuclear fusion, radioactive decay, and the dispersal of heavy elements around the...
Yale’s Julie Zimmerman, a globally recognized engineer whose research in green engineering laid the groundwork for a generation of safer, more sustainable chemicals, materials, and practices across industry and academia, has been named the university’s...