Women who eat chocolate are at decreased risk of developing preeclampsia, a potentially dangerous complication of pregnancy, a Yale study suggests.The conclusions are reported in the current issue of the journal Epidemiology. A team headed by Elizabeth...
A team of astronomers looking at the universe’s distant past found nine young, unusually compact galaxies, each weighing in at 200 billion times the mass of the Sun. The findings appeared in the April 10 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.These...
Gestational age has long been the factor most commonly used to predict whether an extremely low-birth-weight infant survives and thrives, but four additional factors that can help predict a preemie’s outcome have been identified by the National Institutes...
Metastasis, the spread of cancer throughout the body, can be explained by the fusion of a cancer cell with a white blood cell in the original tumor, according to Yale School of Medicine researchers, who say that this single event can set the stage for...
“The Linguists,” a critically acclaimed documentary about two scientists in search of dying languages, will be shown at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., on April 29, at 6 p.m.Following the screening of the film, there will be a discussion with...
Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) will hold a two-part conference, “Understanding the Challenge of Iran,” on April 29 in New York City and on April 30 in New Haven.The event is free and open to the public and the...
Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh to receive Sengbe Pieh Award for his public serviceHarold Hongju Koh, dean of the Law School and the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, and will be honored with a Sengbe Pieh Community...
New Ways to Harvest Energy Yale seniors will demonstrate two engineering projects on energy harvesting — a sidewalk that generates storable electrical energy as you walk on it and a human-powered iPod...
The Yale Peabody Museum will present its distinguished Verrill Medal to Alison Richard, vice chancellor of the University of Cambridge, at a ceremony at Yale’s Luce Hall on Wednesday, April 23.Richard was the director of the Peabody from 1991 to1994 and...
Yale gymnast competed in NCAA RegionalAlina Liao, a junior in Yale College, represented the University at the NCAA Regional gymnastics competition on April 12.Laio tied her career high in both the all-around and on the beam, earning 38.675 and 9.825,...