Ever since audiences heard Goldfinger utter the famous line, “No, Mr. Bond; I expect you to die,” as a laser beam inched its way toward James Bond and threatened to cut him in half, lasers have been thought of as white-hot beams of intensely focused...
Navigating our way down the street is something most of us take for granted; we seem to recognize cars, other people, trees and lampposts instantaneously and without much thought. In fact, visually interpreting our environment as quickly as we do is an...
A team led by Yale University researchers has discovered a previously unknown binding site on a protein found on prostate cancer cells that can enhance their efforts to tag the cells for destruction.The new site improves the ability of synthetic molecules...
Designing a robotic hand that can both pick up and manipulate small objects, like pens or coins, and powerfully grasp larger objects, such as hammers and cups, is no easy task. But that’s exactly what Aaron Dollar, assistant professor of mechanical...
A team of astronomers has used a massive galaxy cluster as a cosmic magnifying lens to study the nature of dark energy for the first time. When combined with existing techniques, their results significantly improve current measurements of the mass and...
David Evans, professor of geology and geophysics, has been named a Faculty Finalist in the New York Academy of Sciences’ 2010 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.The awards, which are currently in their fourth year, recognize “highly innovative,...
Sandwiched between the liquid iron outer core and the thin rocky crust we live on, the Earth’s mantle is more than 1,800 miles thick, and comprises more than three-quarters of the planet’s volume and nearly two-thirds of its mass. Yet surprisingly,...
For some time after Yale University purchased the 136 acres of office buildings, streams and woodlands that comprised the former Bayer Pharmaceutical complex in 2007, the primary occupants of West Campus were turkey, geese, deer and coyotes.That is no...
Two Yale graduate students have been chosen as the first recipients of a new fellowship honoring the memory of graduate student Annie Le.The fellowship, established with an initial gift from Yale of $100,000, will benefit doctoral students in the...
Yale astronomer C. Megan Urry has won the annual Women in Space Science Award, given by the Women’s Board of the Adler Planetarium to “an outstanding woman in space science who exemplifies the characteristics that lead to success academically and in the...