Yale scientists have identified a possible neurobiological home for the spiritual experience — the sense of connection to something greater than oneself.
Activity in the parietal cortex, an area of the brain involved in awareness of self and others as...
Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American woman to earn a medical degree, is not a household name. Neither is Roger Arliner Young, the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in zoology, nor Vera Rubin, a physicist who discovered evidence...
The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment (PROSPECT) has completed the installation of a novel antineutrino detector that will probe the possible existence of a new form of matter.
PROSPECT, located at the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR)...
The newly minted “Yale Explores” series made its second stop May 15 at the Museum of Science in Boston for an evening connecting alumni, parents, and friends with three esteemed members of the Yale faculty and President Peter Salovey ’86 Ph.D.
The theme...
A Yale-led research group has created the most detailed maps yet of a vast seedbed of stars similar to Earth’s Sun.
The maps provide unprecedented detail of the structure of the Orion A molecular cloud, the closest star-forming region of high-mass stars....
Researchers at Yale and Donghua University in China have developed a new process for creating lithium metal that may boost the energy and capacity of rechargeable batteries.
Lithium metal is considered the best option as a material for anodes in high-...
Almost 1,000 investors, entrepreneurs, and scientists gathered May 9 at the Yale School of Management for the Yale Innovation Summit, one of the premier annual showcases for the university’s tech and biotech talent.
The summit, hosted by the Office of...