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,...
For Ross Mitchell and Taylor Kilian, graduate students in geology and geophysics, the end of the work week sometimes marks the beginning of their work.Weekends often find them far from New Haven, studying paleomagnetism — using “fossilized” magnetic...
A smile may be infectious, but are obesity, smoking and even a headache?Published research has suggested that certain health outcomes are “contagious” in close social networks — that, for instance, people who kick the smoking habit are likely to...
Yale University is disappointed that the government of Peru has rejected Yale’s offers to negotiate a collaborative agreement and instead decided to sue the University to recover archaeological material legally excavated at Machu Picchu nearly a century...
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...
Joan Channick, an internationally renowned theatre manager and teacher, has been appointed as associate dean of the Yale School of Drama, effective Feb. 1, 2009, announced Yale University Provost Peter Salovey and Yale School of Drama Dean James Bundy....
The Yale School of Public Health is partnering with Tsinghua University in Beijing to provide management and leadership education for 500 underserved women in China working in the healthcare field. The partnership, beginning in 2009, is part of the...
The public’s concerns about costs and increased promiscuity among teenagers appear to be hindering use of a vaccine against the human papilloma virus (HPV) to prevent life-threatening diseases, according to a study by researchers at Yale School of Public...
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...