Ainissa G. Ramirez The highly successful and engaging Science Saturdays lecture series for school children will be held in Yale’s Davies Auditorium, 15 Prospect Street, from 10:30 to noon on four successive Saturdays beginning October 8. The...
Janet Pan Janet Pan, associate professor of electrical engineering and of applied physics at Yale, whose is developing new materials for optoelectronics, has been invited as a participant to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) 2005 U.S....
T.P. Ma Tso-Ping (T.P.) Ma, Raymond John Wean Professor of Electrical Engineering and chair of the Electrical Engineering Department at Yale University, has been named recipient of the 2005 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers...
A team of American and British scientists have identified and digitally reconstructed the first example of a fossilized brachiopod complete with its pedicle, the stalk attaching it to the sea floor, and its lophophore or feeding organ, according to a...
Biologists testing a mathematical model of the mechanism birds use to control the growth of complex feathers found that plumed feather structures involve the coordination of at least two genes that activate and that inhibit barb growth.“Understanding...
Tian Xu, Professor and Vice Chair of Genetics A collaborative project between American and Chinese researchers developed a way to study the function of genes in mice and man by using a moveable genetic element from moths, according to a...
Weather balloon. Courtesy of NOAA The effect of the sun’s heat on weather balloons largely accounts for a data discrepancy that has long contributed to a dispute over the existence of global warming, according to a report by scientists...
Scientists at Yale and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory report the first large-scale survey of patterns of gene expression in flowers, using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, to identify the genes most likely to have critical roles in plant reproduction....
Alligator eggs hatching The development of bone structures in alligator eggs raised under varying oxygen concentrations creates a link to fossil records of the evolution of vertebrates and prehistoric atmospheric oxygen concentrations,...
Benoit Mandelbrot Benoit Mandelbrot, Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Emeritus, at Yale University has been named the 2005 recipient of the prestigious Sierpinski Prize, awarded jointly since 1974 by the Polish Mathematical...
