Yale’s quest to build the world’s first, fully useful quantum computer is also the story of a small-town kid’s obsession with short-wave radios, a Parisian’s fond boyhood memories of America, and a high school student from the New York suburbs who soaked...
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...
A high-level advisory group to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) last week approved a new set of funding priorities related to particle physics research — and Yale’s leadership aligns strongly with its goals.
The High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (...
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...
Scientists have long puzzled over why all of the planets in Earth’s solar system have slightly slanted orbits around the sun. But a new, Yale-led study suggests this phenomenon may not be so unusual after all. Even in “pristine” solar systems, planets...
There is something magical that happens when grown-ups share books and puzzles with the children in their lives — and for Sam Raskin, something mathematical.
Raskin, the James E. English Professor of Mathematics in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences,...
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) have named Yale physicist Charles D. Brown II as the winner of the Joseph A. Johnson Award for Excellence.
Brown is an assistant professor of physics in Yale’s...
Astronomers have found the oldest-known X-ray quasar in the universe — and its properties align exactly with predictions for a new class of distant objects made by Yale astronomer Priyamvada Natarajan and her research group.
In a new study in the journal...
The mystery of Ezekiel’s Wheel — the extinct sea creature, not the Biblical vision — may have taken its final turn, thanks to Yale paleontologists.
In so doing, the researchers have also finally put a scientific name to the favorite fossil of a beloved...