Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, a co-chair of President-elect Biden’s COVID-19 advisory board, will also lead a new White House task force dedicated to health equity.
Nunez-Smith, an associate professor of internal medicine, public health, and management at...
Yale researchers are developing a skin cancer treatment that involves injecting nanoparticles into the tumor, killing cancer cells with a two-pronged approach, as a potential alternative to surgery.
The results are published in the Proceedings of the...
The search for dark matter — the invisible glue that binds the cosmos and makes up most of the mass of galaxies — is a bit like looking for a needle in a near-infinite haystack.
For one thing, scientists don’t know exactly what dark matter is. They are...
The human brain is the source and conduit of all ideas, beliefs, and dreams.
It drives us to produce art, literature, and science, to feel and describe love, to invent for survival and diversion alike.
Through it, we perceive, we wonder, we question: Why...
Random numbers are increasingly important to our digitally connected world, with applications that include e-commerce, cryptography, and cloud computing. Producing a large amount of truly random numbers quickly, though, is a challenge.
To speed things up...