After months of hard work last year, five undergraduates what is perhaps the ultimate scientific reward — weightlessness.
The Yale Drop Team — made up of Greg Mosby ’09, Michael Boyle ’10, Frances Douglas ’11, Katherine Rosenfeld ’10 and Andrew Kurzrok ’11 — teamed up with NASA at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas this...
Batteries have become a bit more natural. University researchers have created a model for an artificial cell that mimics the electricity-generation of cells in electric eel – but the mimic is more powerful than anything occurring in nature. The artificial cells could one day be used to power tiny medical devices, such as glucose sensors or retinal implants. In animal...
What if The Truman Show happened to you? For 100,000 children across America, it will — and Yale researchers will be behind the cameras. The Yale Center for Perinatal, Pediatric, and Environmental Epidemiology, part of the Yale School of Public Health, received a grant of $10.7 million Friday to widen its involvement in the National Children’s Study. Beginning in...
The American Physical Society honored two Yale physicists with prestigious prizes this year: one who has “taught it all” and one who built the “world’s fastest counter of the smallest beans.” This month, the APS awarded the $10,000 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize to physics professor Ramamurti Shankar and the $5,000 Joseph F. Keithley Award for Advances in...
In late September of 1960, millions of Americans turned their televisions on to watch the first nationally televised presidential debate between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. These first televised debates had a large impact on the election of 1960, helping Kennedy, who embraced the new media, to overtake Nixon. From that point on, television was a huge factor in...
High-speed galaxy collision might stop new star formations While studying new images of a galaxy cluster located close to Earth, Yale astronomers have discovered that high-speed collisions between large elliptical galaxies might inhibit the formation of new stars. The data from the study provide some of the most substantial evidence discovered so far for...
I can count the number of CDs I brought to college on my fingers. Photographs? None. Tapes of old vacations — you’re kidding, right? In this brave new world of digital everything, electronic cousins of these once important physical objects have rendered them relics. The sheer physical nonexistence of digital data, along with incomparable convenience, has permeated the...
Meet Sim-Man. He cannot walk, or talk, or do anything regular humans can do. He can, however, fake a myocardial infarction, pretend to vomit or act as if he is dying. Sim-Man is an instructional mannequin known as a “simulator,” a fairly recent innovation in the field of medical education. Simulation technology has been in use for years, ranging from simple computer...
I download music illegally. I tried to be legal, to buy my CDs and use the online music stores legally. I want to support the bands whose music I enjoy. But the very thing the music companies use to protect themselves from piracy — Digital Rights Management — pushed me into the murky waters of the black market. Here’s the scenario: I went onto the iTunes Music...
It is a daily occurrence to be bombarded with ads any time you go anywhere online. The ads look at the pages you’ve been looking at and try to determine your interests and show you relevant ads. After all, you’re more likely to spend money on something you’re interested in. The benefit for advertisers has to be weighed against privacy concerns. Owing to the huge...
Technically, money doesn’t grow on trees. But for the environmentalists who are trying to save those trees, it might. Yale’s new Sabin Environmental Venture Prize will award $25,000 to the Yale affiliate who submits the best business proposal that “advances a more environmentally sustainable way of life.” But the prize is not simply a competition, but part of a...
