Astronomers have assembled a mosaic of nearly 7,500 images of one part of the sky, creating the largest and most comprehensive history book of the universe.
The Hubble Legacy Field (HLF) mosaic image combines observations from 16 years’ worth of Hubble...
Yale doctoral student Lindsay Stern traces the idea for her new novel “The Study of Animal Languages” to an experience she had involving a lie detector machine.
As an Amherst College undergraduate, Stern had visited the office of a philosophy professor to...
Physics and applied physics professor Jack Harris, whose innovative research helped to advance the new field of quantum opto-mechanics, has won a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship.
The fellowship is the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) most prestigious...
Frogs already knew it wasn’t easy being green, but the going just got a lot tougher for the 1,012 additional species of amphibians who have now been newly identified as at risk of extinction in a Yale-led study.
This paper is published in Current Biology...
A Yale-led team of scientists may have found a new factor to help explain the ebb and flow of Earth’s magnetic field — and it’s something familiar to anyone who has made a vinaigrette for their salad.
Earth’s magnetic field, produced near the center of...
Associate professor of chemistry Timothy Newhouse was selected as one of the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars for 2019.
The honor is awarded by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation to early-career faculty who are deeply committed to both outstanding...
Students enrolled in a seminar with Yale historian John Merriman gain much more than knowledge, according to Yale senior Kevin Bendesky. They also gain a “family.”
For his commitment to his students, among other traits, Merriman was recently named a...