Humans take the starry night for granted. But Earth’s night sky hasn’t always sparkled: In the distant past, during the infancy of the Milky Way, it was a much darker place. Now scientists have pictures of what it looked like and how it’s changed.The top...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Yale chemist Jason Crawford a five-year, $2.5 million grant that will support his study of gut-dwelling bacteria that play a role in the development of colorectal cancer.Jason CrawfordCrawford, who...
Albert Einstein’s celebrated genius may be underappreciated, according to a new book by Yale physicist A. Douglas Stone: The father of relativity theory deserves far more credit than he gets for his insights into quantum theory.“I estimate that his...
Star formation is an even more intense and dynamic process than previously thought, according to research based on data from one of the world’s newest and most powerful telescopes.Star formation is an even more intense and dynamic process than previously...