Two Yale astronomers have discovered that, contrary to previous beliefs, the area around the Milky Way contains the remains of small galaxies that were torn apart by the Milky Way’s gravity. “It was once thought that the Milky Way’s halo had a smooth...
Finding Could Help Pinpoint Time of Planet Formations New Haven, Conn. – A team of astronomers from Yale, Venezuela and the Smithsonian Institution have identified 168 young stars, about half the mass of the sun, in a region called the Orion star forming...
Six Yale researchers were recently elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences for distinguished and continued achievements in original research. The new members include three researchers from the Yale School of Medicine: Peter Cresswell,...
D. Allan Bromley, the first Sterling Professor of the Sciences at Yale and Dean of Engineering from 1994-2000, will deliver the Sheffield Fellowship Lecture on March 22 at 4 p.m. in room 114 of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, corner of Grove and...
The New Haven Public School Citywide Science Fair, co-sponsored by Yale University, Olin Corporation and Bayer Corporation, will receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring at the St. Regis Hotel in...
Women like to believe they would report or confront someone who was sexually harassing them, but when faced with an actual situation, out of fear they rarely voice objections, according to a study by a Yale University researcher. The findings published...
Preschoolers have difficulty distinguishing imagination from reality, particularly if asked about events some time after they occurred, which could have implications for eyewitness testimony, a researcher at Yale has found. Amy Sussman, who conducted...
Paul Hawken, an environmentalist, educator, entrepreneur, and best-selling author, will speak at the 100th commencement exercises of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) May 21. F&ES commencement exercises will...
One way to anticipate the progress of global warming is to examine the evidence for changes in global climate over the last 550 million years and compare it with levels of carbon dioxide, a professor at Yale said in a recent journal article. “Carbon...
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded the Yale Combustion Group in the Department of Engineering a $2.4 million grant to help develop lightweight, readily rechargeable micro-combustion batteries for the soldier of the future. “Conventional...