How many arms does a spiral galaxy have? Can you spot a galaxy with a central “peanut” bulge? Or how about a galactic merger? Answers to these and other strange questions will be provided by ordinary web users in an online citizen science project called...
You don’t have to spend years training to be an astronaut, or even pay a million dollars as a space tourist, to tour the cosmos. Now members of the Yale community, New Haven school groups and the general public can by whisked off to space without even...
Hong Tang, assistant professor of electrical and mechanical engineering, has received a CAREER award from the Faculty Early Career Development Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF).The NSF CAREER Award is one of the highest honors for young...
Three Yale graduate students recently were part of an expedition to Chile to find a rare microorganism that can produce diesel fuel.A year ago, the last place that three Yale graduate students would have expected to find themselves was in Chile, hunting...
In an unprecedented investment in astronomy at Yale, the university has entered into a new partnership with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) that will give it access to one of the world’ premier observatories. Yale will invest $12 million...
Global climate rapidly shifted from a relatively ice-free world to one with massive ice sheets on Antarctica about 34 million years ago. What happened? What changed? A team of scientists led by Yale geologists offers a new perspective on the nature of...
Yale scientists have found a way to study within a living organism the wonders of micro-RNAs – tiny bits of RNA that act like a sculptor and shape the activity of hundreds of genes. The work is reported in the March 1 edition of the journal Genes &...
When NASA’s Kepler spacecraft blasts into space on March 6, thousands of scientists around the globe will get one step closer to finding out just how unique Earth — and possibly life — really is.The robotic probe will spend the next three-and-a-half years...
Some people love gold; others are crazy about platinum. For Ann Valentine, it’s titanium. As a young scientist, she heard about a certain type of sea squirts - soft, tubular-shaped marine creatures that attach themselves to rocks and coral - that filters...
Yale astronomer Sarbani Basu will be available to speak with the media about her role in NASA’s Kepler mission to search for Earth-like planets before it launches on Friday.Kepler is currently scheduled to launch at 10:48 p.m. EST on March 6. The robotic...