Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Udo Schwarz collaborated with two German universities on a discovery that friction has different properties at an atomic level. His work opens gateways to engineering super low-friction surfaces.
Enzymes are indispensible for life, and, increasingly, for medicine and industry. Now, researchers have succeeded in designing enzymes tailored to work at specific temperatures.
Yale physicists have harvested and controlled light photons to serve as storage bits for quantum information.
Dr. Murat Gunel and colleagues at the Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital used advanced genetic technology to map out an 18-month-old girl’s genetic sequence, diagnose her with a rare liver cancer, and provide a cure that opens the door to treating cancer through the use of personalized medicine.
Even without scientific expertise, Yale students, staff, and members of the New Haven community contribute to sustainability research. As part of the Citizen Science program, these volunteers document the biodiversity on Yale’s campus.
Review of the book Newton’s Football, the Science Behind America’s Game by Allen St. John and Ainissa Ramirez.
Disrupting the populations of bacteria than live inside the miniscule guts of ticks can have big ramifications for the feared bacteria that is responsible for the spread of Lyme disease. Dr. Sukanya Narasimhan, Dr. Giovanna Carpi, and Dr. Alexia Belperron shed perspectives from different fields about these interactions in the context of immunity.
Professor Marc Hammarlund and Alexandra Byrne of the Yale School of Medicine have discovered that neurons may be regulated separately from age, suggesting that the deterioration of our neurons as we get older may not be inevitable.
A recent study is pushing new frontiers in the field of synthetic biology. Scientists have been able to successfully recode the entire genome of an E. coli bacterium, opening up vast commercial applications for the future of polymers, drug delivery systems, and more.
Are we running out of metals in this digital era? According to scientists at the Yale Center for Industrial Ecology, not exactly – but that’s not actually the important question.