Want to know how your Game Boy works? Or how robots learn? How about what fossils can tell us about the Earth’s history?These are some of the questions that students from across the New Haven area will explore during this fall’s Science Saturdays program...
Two internationally renowned experts on evolution have been hired to anchor the new Microbial Diversity Institute at Yale’s West Campus.Nancy A. Moran, Regents’ Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Howard Ochman, Regents’ Professor of...
Yale engineers have for the first time observed and tracked E. coli bacteria moving in a liquid medium with a motion similar to that of a kayak paddle.Scientists have long theorized that the cigar-shaped cell bodies of E. coli and other microorganisms...
Yale University chemists and engineers will be part of five new federally-funded Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) that are seeking novel ways to tackle the growing energy crisis. Funding for the centers begins this month.A total of 46 EFRCs,...
Two Yale faculty members have been named MacArthur Foundation Fellows for 2009, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced. Mary Tinetti, M.D., the Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health and...
Forty years ago, doctoral student Joel Rosenbaum asked this question: How are cilia, the tiny thread-like appendages protruding from most cells, formed from molecules in the interior of cells?The answer to this basic biology question asked by Rosenbaum,...
To hear Professor Ramamurti Shankar discuss the subject he teaches, you might expect him to be describing magnificent works of art or timeless poetry: “Beautiful,” “elegant” and “awe-inspiring” are some of the most common adjectives. It’s not until he...
Two Yale chemists are among the inaugural class of American Chemical Society (ACS) Fellows recognized for their excellence in chemistry and service to society. William Jorgensen and John Tully, both of whom hold the title Sterling Professor of Chemistry...
Yale University researchers have found a molecular mechanism that allows the proper mixing of neurons during the formation of columns essential for the operation of the cerebral cortex, they report in the Sept. 16 online issue of the journal Nature....
A Yale anthropologist has captured photographic images of a rare, cougar-like cat ranging at night in an endangered Ugandan forest.The images of the African golden cat (Profelis aurata) were taken by a digital infrared camera trap set last year by the...