“A Personal Tribute”
A remembrance is given to Dr. Sherwin Nuland, who died at 83 on March 3, 2014. Nuland was a surgeon, writer, and bioethicist who taught the freshman seminar History of Scientific Medicine in Yale College.
In the state of Connecticut, gas costs around $3.70 per gallon. Obama garnered roughly three million more votes than Romney did in 2012. The average
The Google Earth Engine Research Award was presented to a team of F&ES researchers and Yale Professor Dr. Chadwick Oliver to facilitate their land stewardship work in Wyoming.
Yale Researcher Shangqin Guo finds that speeding up cells’ cycles increases the rate at which they reprogram to stem cells.
Smartphone technology is transforming breastfeeding counseling into a new era. A more cost-effective approach with more accessible information is under development.
“Life: A Means to a Thermodynamically Favorable End?”
How did life begin? Jeremy England, a physics professor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says the origin and evolution of life is nothing more than a matter of energy dispersal.
A new study led by doctoral student Karen Dannemiller correlates low fungal diversity with an increased likelihood for asthma development in children.
University of Cape Town Professor Kelly Chibale and colleagues have perfected a novel compound that could kill malaria parasites in a single dose.
Robotic warfare is evolving quickly, and it may not be long before robots can kill without humans giving the go-ahead. Wendell Wallach, a lecturer at Yale’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, is lobbying to ban killer robots before they can be deployed.
Genetics may be the cause of curly hair, but researchers at MIT have just recently explored the physics behind why exactly curly hair acts the way it does.
Professor Brian Scassellati and Daniel Leyzberg of the Yale Social Robotics Lab have discovered that receiving personalized instruction from a robot can be comparable to receiving personalized instruction from a human tutor.
Scientists and non-scientists alike are impressed by 3D printing, especially by how rapidly use of the cutting-edge technology has expanded in recent years. But how exactly do 3D printers work?