A 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Yale Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics Michel Devoret – who holds a secondary appointment in Physics in the FAS – “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit.”

A new study led by Damanveer Singh Grewal, an assistant professor of Earth and planetary science in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, suggests that planetesimals in the early solar system emerged from a succession of high-energy collisions.

Junliang Shen, Associate Professor of Mathematics, received a 2024–25 Arthur Greer Memorial Prize from the FAS for his innovative use of algebraic geometry to solve questions in topology, geometry, and mathematical physics.

Newly announced state funding for quantum-related infrastructure comes as public and private entities coalesce around building a quantum tech economy in Connecticut.

A new study led by Candie Paulsen, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, has uncovered the hidden mechanical move that may regulate pain signaling in the human body — and why it sometimes goes awry.

Werner Wolf, the Raymond J. Wean Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics in the Department of Physics, died on Sep. 16.

Wendy V. Gilbert, who joined the Yale faculty in 2017, studies the regulatory elements in mRNA that control the cellular expression of the information stored in genetic code.

Yale community members will engage in a series of events during Climate Week in New York, including a two-day event at the Yale Club, underscoring the many ways the university is advancing solutions to climate change, biodiversity loss, and other planetary challenges.

In a new study, chemist Mark Johnson and his team set measurable parameters on the movement of protons in water — shedding new light on one of basic science’s most enduring enigmas.

This year, Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences welcomed 63 outstanding new faculty across the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.