Images from NASA’s new Spitzer Space Telescope have allowed researchers to detect the long sought population of “missing” supermassive black holes that powered the bright cores of the earliest active galaxies in the young universe. The discovery...
Scientists in the department of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale revealed the crystal structure of the first described enzymatic RNA - what it looks like and how it reacts – in the journal Nature. Scott Strobel, professor and principal...
Distinguished leaders from government and non-governmental organizations, as well as one of the world’s leading authorities in environmental ethics, will join the visiting faculty next year at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F...
A symposium analyzing forest certification in 16 countries around the world will take place on June 10 and 11 at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, 205 Prospect St. Titled “Forest Certification in Developing and Transitioning...
As the United States Congress debates the wisdom of tax subsidies for ethanol made from corn, a shift toward the use of agricultural materials in industrial products is already underway, according to articles published in the Journal of Industrial...
A survey of 1,000 adults nationwide shows Americans are seriously concerned about the country’s environmental health and want more political action on the environment, particularly at the national and international levels. A wide majority of voters say a...
Patterns imprinted on the afterglow of the Big Bang may shed new light on string theory. Scientists studying the Big Bang say that it is possible that string theory may one day be tested experimentally via measurements of the Big Bang’s...
The Yale Chemical Biology Symposium, Friday May 14, is a day-long event designed to highlight and applaud new developments in science at the interface of chemistry and biology. The symposium will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Room 110,...
Eight members of the Yale University faculty have been named Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), the oldest and most illustrious learned society in the United States. The newly elected Fellows are Richard H. Brodhead, Donald Max...
Researchers from Yale University, University of Pittsburgh and University of Georgia have reported new data on how the fundamental arrangement of water molecules is affected by the presence of protons. The work appears in Sciencexpress. This research is...