A recent conference arranged by Yale professor Gregg Zuckerman’s graduate students in honor of his achievements in mathematical physics brought together leading group theorists and mathematical physicists.
In the search for a material with the durability of steel and the flexibility of plastic, Dr. Jan Schroers, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, may have found the “golden ticket” – a biomaterial called bulk metallic glass.
In 2002, Ronald Breaker, incoming department chair of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, discovered riboswitches, and his lab continues to identify new classes of these small functional RNAs.
Dark matter, an important component of most cosmological theories, is being investigated by several new experiments, including the Free Electron Laser, the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, and Project LUX.
Oryza sativa, more commonly known as rice, has served as a model organism for biological research regarding molecular genetics, and the Rice Atlas, a database of gene activity in 60 different rice cells types has now become available,
Dr. Martin Jesse Klein, highly-regarded historian of modern physics, passed away last year in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at the age of 84.
Bonnie T. Fleming, recently appointed Horace D. Taft Associate Professor of Physics, focuses her research on experimentally defining the fundamental behavior of the tiny elemental particles known as neutrinos.
Thanks to preserved evidence of melanin in a fossil feather from Brazil, paleontologists at the Peabody Museum have come one step closer to reconstructing a visual representation of early birds and dinosaurs.
Hür Köser, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, came across bacterial hydrodynamics when studying chemotaxis, or the way bacteria direct their motion in response to chemical signals.
The 2009 Scaringe Award from the RNA Society was awarded to Shobha Vasudevan, postdoctoral fellow in Joan Steitz’s laboratory, who has discovered a novel role for microRNAs in quiescent frog cells.