When Yale astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski and his colleagues at Oxford University enlisted public support in cataloguing galaxies, they never envisioned the strange object Hanny van Arkel found in archived images of the night sky.The Dutch school teacher...
Yale University scientists today reported evidence suggesting that the tiny cilia found on brain cells of mammals, thought to be vestiges of a primeval past, actually play a critical role in relaying molecular signals that spur creation of neurons in an...
Daniel A. Spielman, professor of applied mathematics and computer science at Yale, has been awarded the prestigious Gödel Prize for developing a technique, known as Smoothed Analysis, that helps predict the success of problem-solving with real data and...
A group of Yale undergraduates have discovered dozens of potentially beneficial bioactive microorganisms within plants they collected in the Amazon rain forest, including several so genetically distinct that they may be the first members of new...
President Richard C. Levin has named Professor Michael Donoghue as the first Vice President for West Campus Planning and Program Development, effective October 1.“Michael’s background as both a leading scientist and a museum director makes him uniquely...
Marc G. Pypaert, director of Yale’s Electron Microscopy Core Facility and a research scientist in cell biology, died of brain cancer on July 28 at Connecticut Hospice. He was 45 years old.As part of the Center for Cell and Molecular Imaging, the Electron...