A new minor planet measuring about 400 miles in diameter and located between Neptune and Pluto in the outer rim of the solar system has been found by Yale astronomers. Officially named 2000 EB173, the planet was discovered using a powerful telescope...
Women who wore a virtual reality headset during a painful surgical procedure for infertility found the soothing scenes and music reduced their anxiety and discomfort, a study by a Yale researcher shows. Steven Palter, M.D., assistant professor and...
Plays, old and new, and scholarly papers about the theater will combine at a Yale University conference on “Staging Brazilian and Portuguese Theater,” November 10-11. Students from the Yale School of Drama will perform a staged reading in English of “...
Haskins Laboratories, a Yale-affiliated institution for speech research, has received a $2.9 million grant from the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to study the links between production and perception in speech....
A $2.1 million grant has been awarded to Yale and Penn State researchers to investigate what is causing deformities in amphibians, such as frogs found with extra hind limbs. The five-year study will be concentrated in the Northeast and will attempt to...
- Bulldogs won’t be the only members of the animal kingdom featured at the opening of Yale University’s Tercentennial on Saturday, October 21. Tercentennial Open House visitors will be among the first to see Connecticut artist Zora Janosova’s “Cow-to...
Yale University will hold a campus-wide open house for the public on Saturday, October 21, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. At 10:30 a.m., University President Richard C. Levin and New Haven Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. will preside at a welcome ceremony on Hewitt...
The trauma that a majority of drug addicts suffer in early life has now been shown to increase their vulnerability to drug addiction, Yale researchers report in a new study. “Using well-established animal models, we’ve found strong evidence that early...
Comedian Bill Cosby will visit Yale University on Friday, November 10 to appear at a benefit for Leadership, Education and Athletics in Partnership at Woolsey Hall, corner of Grove and College streets, at 8:00 p.m. Cosby is donating his time for this...
The third annual Yale Physics Olympics Competition, which is designed to stimulate interest in physics among high school students and to support physics teachers, will be held October 21. About 200 high school seniors from Connecticut and New York will...