The Yale University Science Collaborative Hands-On Learning and Research program – known as SCHOLAR – will hold a closing ceremony followed by a reception at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, July 25 at Davies Auditorium, 15 Prospect Street. The program began on...
Eye black grease, a combination of beeswax and pigment used by many athletes to combat sun glare, provides better contrast sensitivity than anti-glare stickers, Yale researchers have found. “Eye black grease appears to be more than just psychological...
The W.M. Keck Foundation, a leading supporter of high impact medical research, science and engineering, has named Kevin White, an assistant professor of genetics at Yale School of Medicine, one of five grant recipients under its Young Scholars in Medical...
A new study demonstrates a decades-long increase in the export of dissolved alkalinity from the Mississippi River – a process that removes the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere – and also suggests that agricultural lands may sequester...
On July 7, 70 students from New Haven’s Hill Regional Career High School will begin to study science and medicine on the Yale University campus as part of Yale’s outreach program for public school students in the city. The Yale University Science...
Yale Dean James Gustave Speth and leading environmental thinkers examine the social and environmental dimensions of globalization and the evolution of global environmental governance in “Worlds Apart: Globalization and the Environment.” Just released by...
Yale professor F. Herbert Bormann will receive the international environmental Blue Planet Prize from the Japanese Asahi Glass Foundation on Oct. 22 in Tokyo. The prestigious prize is awarded annually to two individuals or organizations that have made...
The base height of clouds that form over the Northeastern states has been rising for 30 years, and this could disrupt forests at the north end of the Appalachian Mountains, according to researchers at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental...
Using a snapshot technique, a Yale astronomer has discovered a bright new gravitational lens. The gravitational lens was observed on April 25 by Nicholas Morgan, a post-doctoral fellow at the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, using the 3.5-...
Despite a decade of efforts to find flaws in the unification theory of active galaxies, the theory correctly explains the exotic phenomena of accreting supermassive black holes, a Yale astronomer said today. “Furthermore, the striking parallels between...