Yale researchers have published a cellular atlas of genetic activity in rice, documenting with unprecedented detail how and when genes are turned off and on within cells of a living organism. The staggering amount of data collected during the five-year...
White people do not get as upset when confronted with racial prejudice as they think they will, a study by researchers at Yale University, York University, and the University of British Columbia suggests. This indifference helps explains why racism...
Water and energy are two resources on which modern society depends. As demands for these increase, researchers look to alternative technologies that promise both sustainability and reduced environmental impact. Engineered osmosis holds a key to addressing...
President-elect Barack Obama has said science is crucial to assuring America’s future by creating jobs and wealth today, through the development of alternate energy sources, green industries, new medicines and advanced technologies. His campaign promises...
A team of Yale University astronomers has discovered that galaxies stop forming stars long before their central supermassive black holes reach their most powerful stage, meaning the black holes can’t be responsible for shutting down star formation. Until...
Marrying genomics and geography on a grand scale, Yale University researchers have detected often-subtle molecular changes that occur within micro-organisms living in a host of different marine environments.In an upcoming issue of Proceedings of the...
By the time it is detected in many women, ovarian cancer has already spread to a point that makes treatment difficult or impossible. In a boost to their efforts to improve ovarian cancer detection and find a cure for the disease, Yale School of Medicine...
The movement of facial skin and muscles around the mouth plays an important role not only in the way the sounds of speech are made, but also in the way they are heard according to a study by scientists at Haskins Laboratories, a Yale-affiliated research...
Janet Browne, the Aramont Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, will speak at Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., on February 4.Her talk, titled “Darwin and the Challenge of Biography,” will be the first in the 2009 series...
Three billion years ago, a “new” amino acid was added to the alphabet of 20 that commonly make up proteins in organisms today. Now researchers at Yale and the University of Tokyo have demonstrated how this rare amino acid — and, by example, other amino...