For visual learners, a molecule of ethanol is easier to understand when its carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms have careened onto a screen and spun around for a bit.
Likewise, for these learners the concept of heterogeneous mixtures can be more memorable...
When Yale leaders decided, in 2019, to move into several floors in 100 College St., a 13-story building in the heart of New Haven, it represented something much bigger than scoring new research space.
It offered a historic opportunity to pursue key...
On the Yale campus, the year 2023 was marked by transformative change.
New campus initiatives set the stage for the cross-disciplinary research necessary to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges, and the space to do it. A groundbreaking research...
This month, Insights & Outcomes searches for evidence of atmospheric rivers thousands of years ago, explores the inner workings of a pair of important proteins, takes a hard look at access to liver transplants, and tracks neural patterns relating to...
Yale paleontologists have identified a new fossil lizard, found in the western United States, which they say was an ancestor of modern geckos. And they gave it a name that honors the lead researcher’s grandmother and great aunt.
The discovery of the new...
Scientists have long puzzled over why all of the planets in Earth’s solar system have slightly slanted orbits around the sun. But a new, Yale-led study suggests this phenomenon may not be so unusual after all. Even in “pristine” solar systems, planets...
A few years ago, composer Matthew Suttor was exploring Alan Turing’s archives at King’s College, Cambridge, when he happened upon a typed draft of a lecture the pioneering computer scientist and World War II codebreaker gave in 1951 foreseeing the rise of...
There is something magical that happens when grown-ups share books and puzzles with the children in their lives — and for Sam Raskin, something mathematical.
Raskin, the James E. English Professor of Mathematics in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences,...