A team of researchers led by Melinda Smith at Yale and Travis Huxman at the University of Arizona report that, from desert to rainforest, during drought conditions, the maximum rain use efficiency (RUEmax), or effective productivity of plant growth per...
The Astronomy Department at Yale University will host 125 astronomers from the USA and 18 countries abroad at its largest conference in nearly three decades, from July 12 to July 16. The meeting, “Helio- and Asteroseismology: Towards a Golden Future,”...
Yale scientists, working with the fruit fly as a model, have discovered how odors are encoded by the olfactory system into the complex messages that are sent to the brain. The study, published in the June 25 issue of Cell, provides new insight into how...
I. Richard Savage, emeritus professor and former chair of the Department of Statistics at Yale and a world-renowned expert in the use of statistics in public affairs, such as AIDS diffusion, DNA fingerprinting, human rights and national defense, died on...
Sidney Altman, Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University has been awarded a three-year, Focused Giving Grant by Johnson & Johnson to support his work on coordinated regulation of the protein subunits of...
Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Yale University, was inducted to membership in the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for the purpose...
Images from NASA’s new Spitzer Space Telescope have allowed researchers to detect the long sought population of “missing” supermassive black holes that powered the bright cores of the earliest active galaxies in the young universe. The discovery...
Scientists in the department of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale revealed the crystal structure of the first described enzymatic RNA - what it looks like and how it reacts – in the journal Nature. Scott Strobel, professor and principal...
Distinguished leaders from government and non-governmental organizations, as well as one of the world’s leading authorities in environmental ethics, will join the visiting faculty next year at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F...
Yale researchers Stephen G. Waxman, M.D. and Jeffery D. Kocsis have received a $4.5 million grant from the Veterans Administration Rehabilitation Research and Development Service to continue their internationally recognized research training program...