Luke Skywalker’s childhood might have been slightly less harsh if he’d grown up on a more temperate Tatooine — like the ones identified in a new, Yale-led study.
According to the study’s authors, there are more climate-friendly planets in binary star...
Nearly 30 years ago, scientists discovered a unique class of anticancer molecules in a family of bryozoans, a phylum of marine invertebrates found in tropical waters.
The chemical structures of these molecules, which consist of a dense, highly complex...
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has named five Yale scholars as recipients of a 2024 Sloan Research Fellowship, an honor that recognizes early-career scientists and scholars.
The Yale honorees, all members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, are Eduardo...
A Yale-led research team has picked a side in the “Snowball Earth” debate over the possible cause of planet-wide deep freeze events that occurred in the distant past.
According to a new study, these so-called “Snowball” Earth periods, in which the planet’...
In the animal kingdom, there are many grand examples of species that make sense of their world by expertly deciphering even weak signals from their surroundings.
An eagle soaring above the ground spies a river fish down below, about to swallow a bug; a...
Priyamvada Natarajan, a Yale theoretical astrophysicist who maps the unseen universe, has been elected a fellow of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) for her groundbreaking work in dark matter and black hole physics.
AAS announced the election of 21...
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has awarded the prestigious Comstock Prize in Physics to Yale researchers Michel Devoret and Robert Schoelkopf for their groundbreaking work in quantum information processing and related fields.
Both are members of...
The thing Laura Havener loves about physics is the interactions — the collisions of subatomic particles she studies and the collaborations of hundreds of scientists working on a large experiment.
The North Carolina native, an assistant professor of...
For visual learners, a molecule of ethanol is easier to understand when its carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms have careened onto a screen and spun around for a bit.
Likewise, for these learners the concept of heterogeneous mixtures can be more memorable...
Yale paleontologists have identified a new fossil lizard, found in the western United States, which they say was an ancestor of modern geckos. And they gave it a name that honors the lead researcher’s grandmother and great aunt.
The discovery of the new...