Yale physicist Nicholas Read has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society, one of the most highly regarded honors bestowed upon scientists in the United Kingdom and select foreign institutions.
Read is the Henry Ford II Professor of Physics and...
Matteo Fabbri’s happy place is halfway up a steep hill of earth and rocks in the Sahara Desert.
There, beneath the broiling Moroccan sun and tons of burnt-orange dirt, are the fossilized remains of a dinosaur with a fin. Fabbri, a 30-year-old graduate...
Professor Scott J. Miller has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
The academy selected 120 new members and 26 international members during...
Yale technology is giving astronomers a closer look at the atmosphere of a distant planet where it’s so hot the air contains vaporized metals.
The planet, MASCARA-2 b, is 140 parsecs from Earth — or roughly 2.68 quadrillion miles. It’s a gas giant, like...
Yale’s Gregory A. Margulis, widely considered one of the most innovative and influential mathematicians of the past half-century, has been awarded the Abel Prize in Mathematics — among the world’s leading honors in mathematics, along with the Field Medal...
Yale geologists have identified the deepest pieces of Earth’s crust ever found in the United States or Canada — in the rolling hills of northern Connecticut.
Tiny bits of quartz and other minerals, inside garnet crystals, tell the story of a tectonic...
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has named a trio of Yale astronomers among its inaugural class of fellows.
Sarbani Basu, professor and chair of the Department of Astronomy; Debra Fischer, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy; and Meg Urry,...
Physicists from Yale are looking deep beneath a mountain in central Italy for proof of how matter was created in the universe — and a new batch of data is narrowing the search.
The Yale researchers, part of an international collaboration called the...
A Yale-led study turns up the heat on a key question about dinosaurs’ body temperature: Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded?
According to a new technique that analyzes the chemistry of dinosaur eggshells, the answer is warm.
“Dinosaurs sit at an...
Blue-green algae are getting their day in the sun — not that they need much of it. A new analysis of their molecular makeup could lead to better solar technology and crops that grow just fine with less sunlight.
In a new study in the journal Science...