What if the world could agree on a shared creation story based on modern cosmology and biology? Could this help resolve the undeniable global problems we face today within the context of a new cosmic perspective?Yale University invites you to explore...
Leveraging more than $25 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Yale School of Medicine has created a new research center to study how our brain evolved uniquely human traits. Its founders hope that the center will identify new...
Evolutionary biology theory predicts that males usually won’t invest a lot of time raising offspring when there is a good chance they are not the fathers. Yale University researchers have found a notable exception to this premise—a male fish in the...
Yale College senior Jocelyn Traina is studying a protein implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. She needs to know physics to understand the lasers that she uses, biology to purify the protein for experiments, chemistry to test how it reacts in those...
Physicists at Yale University have made the first definitive measurements of “persistent current,” a small but perpetual electric current that flows naturally through tiny rings of metal wire even without an external power source.The team used nanoscale...
Quotes about Yale researcher, Thomas Steitz, winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.Yale University President Richard Levin:“He is a towering figure in the field of structural biology.”“Tom Steitz has a rare family. His wife Joan is one of the leading...
October 7, 2009, 12 noon., in New Haven, ConnecticutA press conference with Nobel Prize Winner Thomas Steitz, Sterling professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry and professor of chemistry at Yale University, will be held today at Noon in the...
Thomas A. Steitz, Sterling professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Chemistry at Yale University, is one of three winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work describing the structure and function of the ribosome,...
Does evolution explain human nature? Three experts explored this question on Sept. 24 during a panel discussion sponsored by Yale University, Discover Magazine and the John Templeton Foundation. A video of the discussion, moderated by Corey S. Powell,...
Want to know how your Game Boy works? Or how robots learn? How about what fossils can tell us about the Earth’s history?These are some of the questions that students from across the New Haven area will explore during this fall’s Science Saturdays program...