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 ...

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 ...

The search for dark matter — the invisible glue that binds the cosmos and makes up most of the mass of galaxies — is a bit like looking for a needle in a near-infinite haystack. For one thing, ...

A professor from Yale University is among three scientists to win the Nobel Prize in physics for their work in quantum mechanical effects and discoveries that are essential to everyday items such as ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...