Many of the greatest scientific leaps in history were unplanned and unexpected, not the result of applied or agenda-driven scientific research but of curiosity-driven research in which scholars follow their curiosity where it leads them.
Curiosity-driven...
Yale’s Julie Zimmerman, a globally recognized engineer whose research in green engineering laid the groundwork for a generation of safer, more sustainable chemicals, materials, and practices across industry and academia, has been named the university’s...
A wafer-thin slice of meteorite at the Yale Peabody Museum contains otherworldly gems. Olivine crystals, known as peridots to jewelers, are embedded in the specimen’s shiny iron-nickel alloy. When held to light, the yellow crystals glow brightly.
“It’s...
William Jorgensen, Sterling Professor of Chemistry in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been named the recipient of the American Chemical Society’s 2024 Arthur C. Cope Award for his ongoing achievements in organic chemistry.
The Cope Award,...
Humble neutrinos — electrically neutral particles that glide through the universe, unaffected by the forces of nature — have helped to shape the cosmos. They play a role in nuclear fusion, radioactive decay, and the dispersal of heavy elements around the...
Every day beneath our feet, microbial decomposers tussle with soil minerals over a vast reservoir of carbon stored in the ground — and scientists know almost nothing about how this jostling plays out at the global scale.
Yet that knowledge might prove...
This month, Insights & Outcomes begins the academic year with some revelations about certain rapid eye movements, new research on the relationship between substance abuse and the tendency to overgeneralize, and details of a trio of faculty honors.
As...
