August 2022 News

Emily Judson, right, tests a flight suit designed and fabricated last spring by the students of “The Mechanical Artifact: Ultra Space,” a course that examines questions connecting architecture, design, and artistry to humankind’s future in space. (Photos by Steve Boxall, ZERO-G)
August 12, 2022
Picture a spacesuit. It’s functional, and the mirrored visor is fun. But you can’t dance in it. While the first astronaut to set foot on Mars probably won’t pirouette or...
August 11, 2022
The story of women in astronomy is not simply a tale of the planets they’ve discovered and the black holes they’ve mapped. It is a history filled with persistence and...
Developing Dendrites: The complex and highly variable dendritic morphologies emerge from the stochastic dynamics of dendrite tips. This maximum intensity projected image is pseudo colored based on the intensity value.
August 5, 2022
Our nervous system is composed of billions of neurons that speak to each other through their axons and dendrites. When the human brain develops, these structures branch out...
August 5, 2022
Yale astrophysicists have helped assemble an unprecedented census of the most powerful, growing supermassive black holes in the universe. Using data from NASA’s Swift...
August 4, 2022
On July 26, 2022, Ako Jamil successfully defended the thesis: “Rare Event Searches in Liquid Xenon with EXO-200 and nEXO” (advisor: David Moore). Jamil explained: “The...