Yale is poised to help launch a new generation of women physicists, with a weekend full of networking, mentorship, and discussion. Yale will host one of eight conferences around the country for ...

Yale physicists are providing crucial support for an international research collaboration that has released the first results from a novel experiment into why matter outstrips antimatter in the ...

NEW HAVEN >> Despite a brain trust of about 200 high schoolers gifted in physics all in one place at the Yale Physics Olympics, calculating their own momentum proved to be challenging. “We’ve just ...

A high-level advisory group to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) last week approved a new set of funding priorities related to particle physics research — and Yale’s leadership aligns strongly with ...

The federal government’s Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC), which provides official advice to the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation, has approved a long-range plan ...

The instructions were simple: Pass a lump of green silly putty through a laser beam twice in as little time as possible using only your wits and an orange Hot Wheels track. Given 20 minutes and the ...

The American Physical Society has announced that Yale professor Nicholas Read of the departments of Physics and Applied Physics is among three recipients of the 2002 Oliver E. Buckley Prize for ...

NEW HAVEN >> The third-place team walked away with medals made of copper, actually the most valuable metal used to make any of the medals given out at this year’s Yale Physics Olympics. This joke was ...

New Haven, Conn. - Yale physicists have uncovered hints of a time crystal -- a form of matter that "ticks" when exposed to an electromagnetic pulse -- in the last place they expected: a crystal you ...

Physicists have chilled the world's coolest molecules. The tiny titans in question are bits of strontium monofluoride, dropped to 2.5 thousandths of a degree above absolute zero through a laser ...