Temperatures at Earth’s highest latitudes were nearly as warm after Antarctica’s polar ice sheets developed as they were prior to glaciation, according to a new study led by Yale University. The finding upends most scientists’ basic understanding of how...
The American Physical Society (APS) has elected Yale associate professor of physics Reina Maruyama and Yale Presidential Visiting Scholar Shelly Lesher as fellows of the society.
At the heart of almost any scientific or technological challenge, you’re likely to find a mathematician or two trying to work the problem.
This is the realm of applied mathematics. It covers a wide spectrum of research disciplines, from medicine and...
When a student named Justin wrote pieces for a creative writing workshop offered by the Yale Prison Education Initiative (YPEI) this summer, he felt like he was sharing his heart with the world.
The workshop, which was offered to inmates at the MacDougall...
New observational research suggests that supermassive black holes — the mysterious, light-swallowing objects at the heart of nearly all large galaxies — are spinning like crazy.
It’s a finding that has sweeping implications for how black holes form, how...
Yale’s Daniel Colón-Ramos and Enrique De La Cruz have been named as two of the 100 most inspiring Hispanic/Latinx scientists in America by Cell Mentor, an online professional resource for scientists created by Cell Press.
In honor of National Hispanic...
Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) will welcome 30 new colleagues this academic year who bring world-class scholarship and teaching in a range of fields, including Egyptology, quantum physics, 17th-century English poetry, machine learning, and...