Yale researchers have demonstrated silicon-based nanocantilevers, smaller than the wavelength of light, that operate on photonic principles eliminating the need for electric transducers and expensive laser setups. The work is reported in an April 26...
Scientists dream of the day when they can create designer proteins capable of inhibiting harmful interactions, modifying substrates or guiding cellular machines to where they are needed within the body. Though that dream may be far down the road, Yale...
A young black man with the grades and the desire to attend the Yale School of Medicine in the 1800s faced seemingly insurmountable odds, but the power of relationships is what made it possible for Courtlandt Van Rensselaer Creed to beat those odds, said...
In the autumn of 1609, the Italian mathematician and astronomer Galileo Gallilei turned his telescope to the heavens, deciphering the cratered face of the moon, the four satellites of Jupiter and other features of the sky.The discoveries Galileo made 400...
Translating basic research into new technologies that advance our health and welfare has been part of Yale’s “DNA” for centuries, and the pace of innovation at the University continues to accelerate dramatically. Visit the “Yale Innovators” website....
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...