By the time they complete his mechanical engineering class, Professor John Morrell’s students will have designed and built a hybrid car or a model airplane and entered them in national competitions.During the semester, the Yale undergraduates in his class...
Rather than infer that nanotechnology is safe, members of the public who learn about this novel science tend to become sharply polarized along cultural lines, according to a study conducted by the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School in...
For over six decades, Yale scientist Talbot Waterman has been bringing insights into how aquatic animals use polarized light — i.e., the directional orientation of light that indicates the sun’s position in the sky — to navigate underwater.Waterman, 94,...
Youngsters and adults alike will soon be able to tour the cosmos without leaving their seats, thanks to the opening of a new planetarium at Yale’s Leitner Family Observatory, 355 Prospect St. The renamed Leitner Family Observatory and Planetarium is set...
People do act as if it is better to give than receive, but perhaps not for purely altruistic reasons, Yale researchers report. People are much more likely to offer help such as providing a ride to the train station to a casual friend than to ask for...
Like a well-trained army, the fundamental biological processes of organisms are coordinated through a hierarchy of finely tuned molecular commands. In a new paper published online Dec. 18 in the journal Genes and Development, Yale University researchers...
Jeremy Gray, a psychologist at Yale University, is one of 20 young scientists who are winners of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Science and Engineers. The awards, given by the White House in consultation with the National Science Foundation and...
Yale physicist Jack Harris has demonstrated that one doesn’t have to be a research veteran to push back the frontiers of science.Like Einstein, who was only 26 years old when he came up with the theory of special relativity, Harris — an assistant...
Paul Anastas, the inaugural Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment, is widely regarded as the “father of green chemistry.”Green chemistry is the study of how to design chemical products and processes in...
Ania Bleszynski-Jayich, a postdoctoral fellow in physics, is one of five American women who have been honored by L’Oréal U.S.A. with a 2008 Fellowship for Women in Science.Bleszynski-Jayich has developed new techniques for creating the extreme conditions...