With a box full of motors, pistons, springs, pieces of wood, metal, and other materials, Yale mechanical engineering students are building machines intended to rescue the mythological Persephone from the underworld. “Robot Wars 2000,” an annual...
A Yale research team has made a groundbreaking discovery that could make humans, livestock and crops a much less tasty meal for insects. The first insect taste receptor genes, which encode the proteins that underlie the insects’ sense of taste, have...
A new method of calculating oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere suggests that an increase more than 300 million years ago was caused by the rise and spread of trees and other vascular land plants, a Yale study finds. The new plant life produced dead...
A new method of calculating oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere suggests that an increase more than 300 million years ago was caused by the rise and spread of trees and other vascular land plants, a Yale study finds. The new plant life produced dead...
A recently created Web site that measures candidate preferences reveals a lack of association between respondents’ conscious and unconscious preferences. The Web site, created by investigators at Yale University and the University of Washington, shows...
Earning a doctorate in mathematics is an extraordinary achievement, especially if you are an African American woman.
The very first such person ever to earn a Ph.D. in math in the United States (Yale 1949), Evelyn Boyd Granville, will be at Yale from...
Yale researchers have discovered that a critical function of each cell – passing proteins through a membrane – is performed as a duet, not a solo. An article published in the current issue of Science and featured on the cover describes the structure...
Three Yale professors in the faculty of engineering are among 75 researchers in 25 states selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to receive grants totaling $25 million to improve space exploration research. The Yale...
Yale scientists have discovered that a single enzyme found in certain organisms is capable of providing two amino acids in protein synthesis, increasing the possibility of creating improved antibiotics. This discovery solves the last remaining mystery...
A newly discovered “Ras” protein, which is related to a group known to be a factor in nearly 30 percent of all human tumors, has been identified by a Yale professor. “There are three known Ras proteins,” said Sankar Ghosh, associate professor in the...