His students are sitting in a Yale classroom in New Haven in the 21st century, but John Carlson wants to transport them back to England in the mid-1960s. He wants them to struggle alongside the scientists back then who were trying to identify the agent...
Robert J. Schoelkopf, newly named as the inaugural William A. Norton Professor of Applied Physics and Physics, is noted for his research on quantum transport, single-electron devices and charge dynamics in nanostructures.When he won the American Physical...
Frederic M. Richards, a structural biologist at Yale and an innovative leader in the study of the relationships between protein structures and their biological functions, died of natural causes at home on Jan. 11. He was 83 years old.Richards, Sterling...
Three billion years ago, a “new” amino acid was added to the alphabet of 20 that commonly make up proteins in organisms today. Now researchers at Yale and the University of Tokyo have demonstrated how this rare amino acid — and, by example, other amino...
Janet Browne, the Aramont Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, will speak at Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., on February 4.Her talk, titled “Darwin and the Challenge of Biography,” will be the first in the 2009 series...
The movement of facial skin and muscles around the mouth plays an important role not only in the way the sounds of speech are made, but also in the way they are heard according to a study by scientists at Haskins Laboratories, a Yale-affiliated research...
By the time it is detected in many women, ovarian cancer has already spread to a point that makes treatment difficult or impossible. In a boost to their efforts to improve ovarian cancer detection and find a cure for the disease, Yale School of Medicine...
Marrying genomics and geography on a grand scale, Yale University researchers have detected often-subtle molecular changes that occur within micro-organisms living in a host of different marine environments.In an upcoming issue of Proceedings of the...
A team of Yale University astronomers has discovered that galaxies stop forming stars long before their central supermassive black holes reach their most powerful stage, meaning the black holes can’t be responsible for shutting down star formation. Until...
The names of some Nobel Prize-winning physicists are well known, even outside the scientific community — such as Einstein, whose name has became synonymous with genius; Heisenberg, who had a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics named after him; or...