The search for Planet Nine — a hypothesized ninth planet in our solar system — may come down to pinpointing the faintest orbital trails in an incredibly dark corner of space.
That’s exactly what Yale astronomers Malena Rice and Gregory Laughlin are...
A new generation of materials, engineered at the microscopic level, is poised to bring major advances to wireless communications, biomedical research, laser technologies, energy research, and computing.
At the heart of that research is symmetry,...
In separate articles published recently by The Geological Society of London, Yale geologists David Evans, R. Damian Nance, and their colleagues debate the existence of Pannotia, a supercontinent that may — or may not — have formed near the South Pole...
Yale University has launched a campus-wide initiative that will unite institutional leadership and academic experts across the natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, professional schools, and the humanities in an intensive effort to tackle the...
After 20 years and four previous phases, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s Phase V(SDSS V) is ready to give Yale astronomers a new look at the wonders of the cosmos.
The survey’s mission is ambitious: It aims to create a detailed, three-dimensional map of...
As any parent homeschooling a young student knows all too well, finding fun science experiments that can be conducted safely and affordably at home — while also conveying important scientific concepts — isn’t easy.
All too often, home experiments require...
Islands jutting up from the world’s oceans provided environmental conditions necessary for early life to flourish, a new study co-authored by a Yale scientist suggests.
Significantly, the finding offers important evidence supporting one of the most...
A new study suggests that tiny, mineral grains — squeezed and mixed over millions of years — set in motion the chain of events that plunge massive tectonic plates deep into the Earth’s interior.
The theory, proposed by Yale scientists David Bercovici and...
At least 14 Yale faculty members and researchers have been included in a list of 1,000 inspiring Black scientists in America appearing in Cell Mentor, an online resource for researchers.
The list was compiled by The Community of Scholars, a group of...
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has presented the 2021 Michael and Sheila Held Prize to Daniel Spielman, Sterling Professor of Computer Science and professor of statistics and data science, for helping to solve a theoretical problem that had vexed...