This fall the Yale School of Architecture will offer more than a dozen free lectures, symposia and panel discussions that are open to the public. They include a two-day symposium on the great lighting designer Richard Kelly, which coincides with a...
Within a dangerous stomach bacterium, Yale University researchers have discovered an ancient but functioning genetic remnant from a time before DNA existed, they report in the August 13 issue of the journal Science.To the surprise of researchers, this RNA...
The Gondwana supercontinent underwent a 60-degree rotation across Earth’s surface during the Early Cambrian period, according to new evidence uncovered by a team of Yale University geologists. Gondwana made up the southern half of Pangaea, the giant...
A combination of Chinese herbs in use for more than 1,800 years reduced the gastrointestinal side effects of chemotherapy in mice, while actually enhancing the effects of the cancer treatment, Yale University researchers report.The formula used in the...
Yale researchers have discovered how a novel anti-depressant can take effect in hours, rather than the weeks or months usually required for most drugs currently on the market. The findings, described in the August 20 issue of the journal Science, should...
A team of astronomers has used a massive galaxy cluster as a cosmic magnifying lens to study the nature of dark energy for the first time. When combined with existing techniques, their results significantly improve current measurements of the mass and...
Yale School of Medicine today announced that it has begun notifying approximately 1,000 individuals whose clinical health information was contained on a laptop computer that was recently stolen. There is no indication that any individual information on...
Daniel Spielman, professor of computer science and applied mathematics at Yale University, has won the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize, one of the highest honors in the field of mathematics. The prize is awarded every four years during the International Congress of...
To help combat rising melanoma rates, a volunteer team of Yale School of Medicine dermatologists representing the Women’s Dermatologic Society (WDS) will provide free skin cancer screenings for spectators at the Pilot Pen Tennis Tournament in New Haven on...
Mutations in a single gene critical to the development of the human cerebral cortex can cause a host of brain deformities previously thought to be unrelated, Yale researchers report online August 22 in the journal Nature.The surprising findings describe...