A work of art was taking shape one late spring afternoon on the 11th floor of 100 College Street, soon to be home to Yale’s Wu Tsai Institute. Vivid planes of color — green, blue, red, orange, yellow, and purple — stretched along a 49-foot-long wall,...
From his office in New Haven, Yale ecologist Jeremy Cohen experiences the full range of the four seasons, from hot and humid summers to dry and chilly winters. But it occurred to him that many of his research subjects — North American birds — eschew the...
“Strange metal,” that rogue phenomenon of the electrical realm, just became a little less enigmatic.
Identified more than 40 years ago, strange metal is a state of matter found in many quantum materials — including certain superconductors that scientists...
Researchers at Yale and the Southwest Research Institute may have discovered the secret to Venus’s youthful appearance: a high-energy, rejuvenating boost it received in its earliest years.
For decades, the relatively unblemished surface of Venus has...
A genetic analysis suggests that the servants and retainers who lived, worked, and died at Machu Picchu, the renowned 15th century Inca palace in southern Peru, were a diverse community representing many different ethnic groups from across the Inca empire...
Yale researchers may have solved a longstanding puzzle as to why certain metallic meteorites show traces of a magnetic field — a finding that may shed light on the formation of magnetic dynamos at the core of planets.
Planetary magnetism is key to...
