Adam Marcus, Daniel Spielman, and Nikhil Srivastava have proven the 54-year-old mathematical problem known as the Kadison-Singer Conjecture, which holds important consequences for the field of interlacing families as well as the mathematical foundations of quantum physics.
In a collaborative study, researchers from several Yale departments have developed small synthetic molecules that limit damage to the heart from ischemia, which could potentially be developed into drugs to be used in a surgical or therapeutic setting.
The brain is one of the least well understood of the organs in our bodies, and historically we have only had indirect methods available to measure neural activity. However, professors at the Yale School of Medicine have recently designed a new neural probe which directly measures and images brain activity using light.
Yale Professor Héctor Arce and an international collaboration of astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to obtain striking images of a protostar, providing a new glimpse into the dynamics of star formation.
Four Yale Physicists who have recently won awards remark on their achievements, how they became interested in research, and advice they would give to undergraduates considering research in the physical sciences.
In discovering an approach to creating regenerative sensors, Mark Reed, Yale Professor of Electrical Engineering, has improved the efficacy and precision of biosensors in detecting biomarkers for cancer and other diseases.
Professor Joan A. Steitz has been selected to receive the 2013 Grande Médaille from the French Academy of Sciences.
Exploration is without scope. It can encompass sparks of revolutionary invention or revealing reexaminations of known fact. It can take us soaring up through clouds
Absolute zero is the lowest possible temperature, right? Not quite — physicists have recently developed a negative temperature system by creating an atomic gas that exists at a few billionths of a Kelvin below zero.
