Barkotel Zemenu is a believer in the revelatory nature of relationships.
At the most fundamental level, he says, relationships between unseen particles form the scaffolding upon which the universe flourishes; on a more human level, relationships between...
Astronomers at Yale and the University of Hong Kong have proposed a new strategy for finding the universe’s first stars — by looking for signs of their final, fiery flares.
For years, scientists have searched for direct evidence of “Population III” stars...
Two Yale faculty members have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Sociologist and physician Nicholas Christakis and chemist James Mayer are...
The imperceptible forces that push, pull, and pass through the universe have clearly tugged at Barkotel Zemenu a time or two. Or 10.
Four years ago, Zemenu entered the vortex of Yale undergraduate life with a passion to study history. Perhaps he might...
A new, Yale-led study suggests that a range of respiratory viral infections — including COVID-19 and influenza — may be preventable or treatable with a generic antibiotic that is delivered to the nasal passageway.
A team led by Yale’s Akiko Iwasaki and...
There were salutes all around during the annual President’s Review ceremony, held April 18 in the John Lee Amphitheater at the Payne Whitney Gymnasium.
As is custom, Yale President Peter Salovey served as reviewing officer for the event, a celebration of...
Two Yale faculty members — a trailblazing astrophysicist and a leading immunologist — are part of Time Magazine’s 2024 list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Priyamvada Natarajan, whose theories on the unseen forces underpinning the...
Laura Wexler circled the date of the solar eclipse on her calendar weeks ago — and Monday afternoon she tried to circle it in her colander.
“I was pretty sure I’d get here too late for the glasses,” said Wexler, the Charles H. Farnam Professor of Women’s...
Yale astronomers have helped identify a tiny star system orbiting the Milky Way which they say hints at the existence of a new class of faint, satellite star systems that orbit around large galaxies.
An international team led by researchers at Yale and...
Next week, when a total solar eclipse traces a narrow path across the United States, Christopher Lindsay, a fourth year Ph.D. candidate in astronomy and Gruber Science Fellow in Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, won’t be chasing its “path of...