A team of astronomers looking at the universe’s distant past found nine young, unusually compact galaxies, each weighing in at 200 billion times the mass of the Sun. The findings appeared in the April 10 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.These...
New Ways to Harvest Energy Yale seniors will demonstrate two engineering projects on energy harvesting — a sidewalk that generates storable electrical energy as you walk on it and a human-powered iPod...
T. Kyle Vanderlick, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science Yale will create a School of Engineering & Applied Science, President Richard C. Levin announced today.“Re-establishing the School of...
The Science Saturdays program for April 12 will now feature a lecture and demonstration by chemist Kurt Zilm. It will be held from 10:30 a.m. to noon in Davies Auditorium of the Becton Engineering building at 15 Prospect Street.Zilm’s talk and...
A genetic mutation in a gene that is a marker for asthma severity may also play a role in causing the disease, researchers at Yale School of Medicine and the University of Chicago report today in the New England Journal of Medicine.“We know from a recent...
Recent research at Yale provided a glimpse of the ancient mechanism that helped diversify our genomes; it illuminated a relationship between gene processing in humans and the most primitive organisms by creating the first crystal structure of a crucial...
Scott Strobel Yale University’s Scott A. Strobel, professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, has been awarded the prestigious Schering-Plough Research Institute Award.The award is given by the...
A special Yale-CURE BioHaven presentation will give venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and the Yale community a chance to look into the future at the next generation of medical therapeutics.The panel discussion will be held on Wednesday, April 16 in the...
The Yale Peabody Museum will present its distinguished Verrill Medal to Alison Richard, vice chancellor of the University of Cambridge, at a ceremony at Yale’s Luce Hall on Wednesday, April 23.Richard was the director of the Peabody from 1991 to1994 and...
Airway nerve cells exposed to chlorine. Bright color indicates excitation of some nerve cells. Inhaling chlorine triggers a nerve receptor that protects healthy people by inducing sneezing, coughing, and...