Science

Imagine if your high school offered classes on AI and quantum mechanics

The next big step in graduate education: Why Yale should build its first graduate college

The science behind 6 million deaths a year

Perhaps no medical or scientific research has the potential to save as many lives as…

Optogentic dopamine sleep switch

Gero Miesenboeck’s lab at Oxford published in the Aug 16 issue of Nature results of an experiment in…

The Beauty of Organic Chemistry Revealed

Browsing through the recent issue of Nature, I stumbled upon an headline that triggered fond memories of freshmen organic chemistry at Yale: “Electrostatic catalysis of a Diels–Alder reaction.” In a remarkably elegant experiment, the authors show that…

Oncohistones and Gene Regulation

Today I heard a great presentation by Chao Lu from the Rockefeller University at a day-long symposium in epigenetics hosted by the New York Genome Center.

Science Research Report on Cocaine

New research on patients with Cocaine Use Disorder (CUD) was published in the June 17, 2016 issue…

Using dumb AI to solve complex problems

The Human Nature Lab at Yale is currently experimenting with using very simple AI to solve…