Two Yale faculty members — a trailblazing astrophysicist and a leading immunologist — are part of Time Magazine’s 2024 list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Priyamvada Natarajan, whose theories on the unseen forces underpinning the...
Laura Wexler circled the date of the solar eclipse on her calendar weeks ago — and Monday afternoon she tried to circle it in her colander.
“I was pretty sure I’d get here too late for the glasses,” said Wexler, the Charles H. Farnam Professor of Women’s...
Priyamvada Natarajan, a Yale theoretical astrophysicist who maps the unseen universe, has been elected a fellow of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) for her groundbreaking work in dark matter and black hole physics.
AAS announced the election of 21...
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) have named Yale physicist Charles D. Brown II as the winner of the Joseph A. Johnson Award for Excellence.
Brown is an assistant professor of physics in Yale’s...
The Great North American Eclipse, Part I, is coming to a telescope near you on Saturday.
More formally called an annular solar eclipse, the celestial event will chart a course through western parts of North America on Oct. 14. It will look like a ring of...
Yale’s Julie Zimmerman, a globally recognized engineer whose research in green engineering laid the groundwork for a generation of safer, more sustainable chemicals, materials, and practices across industry and academia, has been named the university’s...
On a foggy, Friday night recently, with old hip hop songs filling the air and hundreds of happy people taking in the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, a small quantum forest sprouted up on the New Haven Green.
Dozens of illuminated beacons, each...
Yale and the University of Connecticut will use a $1 million planning grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to formally propose Connecticut as a regional hub for quantum-related research, technologies, and jobs.
Stargazing on Science Hill is back at full strength.
Yale’s Leitner Family Observatory and Planetarium, which has been closed for shows since 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, recently resumed its weekly planetarium shows, visits from school groups, and...
The next time you’re at the public library, be sure to make a mental note of the kid at a nearby table soaking up a biography of Albert Einstein. That kid might be the next generation’s Charles D. Brown II, quantum physicist.
Brown, who joined Yale's...