Astronomers studying new images of a nearby galaxy cluster have found evidence that high-speed collisions between large elliptical galaxies may prevent new stars from forming, according to a paper to be published in a November 2008 issue of The...
Researchers at Yale University have created a blueprint for artificial cells that are more powerful and efficient than the natural cells they mimic and could one day be used to power tiny medical implants. The scientists began with the question of whether...
Yale alumnus Michael J. Rooks joined the Yale Institute of Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering (YINQE) on Oct. 1 as associate director for research facilities.In his new post, Rooks will be responsible for working with Yale faculty in the planning,...
Yale scientists have created nanowire sensors coupled with simple microprocessor electronics that are both sensitive and specific enough to be used for point-of-care (POC) disease detection, according to a report in Nano Letters. The sensors use...
Two Yale University scientists will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious honor societies, at a ceremony this Saturday, Oct. 11 at the society’s headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. Meg...
Yale researchers have described how dueling brain systems may explain why you forget to drop off the dry cleaning and may point to ways that substance abusers and people with obsessive compulsive disorder can overcome bad habits. In Proceedings of the...
It wasn’t the kind of strategizing you’d expect to overhear during an Olympic event. “You have to make sure the spring is even,” said Richard Kwan, a senior from Weston High School, as he fiddled delicately with one of the three cylinders hanging from the...
Bruce F. Carmichael has been named deputy dean for academic administration in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, effective Nov. 17. “We are extremely fortunate to have Bruce join us at this time of growth and strategic planning for our new...
Nearly 50 years ago, Yale scientist George Veronis helped found a program at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) through which researchers from around the world could discuss and debate how water and other fluids move in the ocean, on planets...
Microsoft External Research has named Jun Korenaga, Yale associate professor of geology and geophysics, as an A. Richard Newton Breakthrough Research Award winner for his research on how the movement of Earth’s surface plates contributes to the...