by | Jul 8, 2014 12:47 pm | Comments (6)
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Fernandez with Kyasia Suggs, closing the tech-ed gap.
“I got it!” Jermiana Cannon exclaimed upon realizing that she could use a “repeat” command to shorten some computer code she’d just written. The exclamation echoed across the room — and signaled hope for New Haven kids aiming for the jobs of the future.
by | Jun 11, 2014 2:59 pm | Comments (1)
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Stars swirled in and out of focus behind Stella Offner (pictured) as she lifted her arms enthusiastically and waxed romantic on one particular component of our solar system: the sun, and what makes ours so distinct.
In front of her, a room packed with close to 130 doctoral students, science geeks, and curious members of the public nursed night-sky-dark ales and Blue Moons, preparing even their taste buds for the astronomical knowledge that was about to be dropped on them.
by | Jun 10, 2014 1:07 pm | Comments (0)
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Neighbors along the Quinnipiac River awoke to a strange sight Monday morning: An unusual creature in the water along the residential finger piers just north of the Grand Avenue Bridge on the western shore.
It was about the size of a goat with a humorous flat nose. The most bizarre feature was that the animal had at least two humps visible above the water line. And it was swimming.
Continue reading ‘Was That An Evolutionary Discovery In The Q River?’
by | May 16, 2014 10:18 am | Comments (4)
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A team of high-school freshmen has found a way to snuff out household termites — without exposing children and pets to noxious chemicals.
by | May 8, 2014 3:36 pm | Comments (0)
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Solad’s company seeks to use Google Glass to improve surgery.
Nervous about going under the knife? Don’t worry — the surgeon wearing weird glasses is actually two surgeons. A second doctor is looking through your doctor’s eyes and whispering in his ear, guiding every slice and suture.
Continue reading ‘OK, Google, Remove The Patient’s Appendix’
by | Jul 29, 2013 12:39 pm | Comments (4)
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Three boys watched a beaker’s contents intently, giggling as the swirling liquid turned into neon pink slime.
The boys and roughly 25 other 9- and 10-year-olds from a summer program run by the youth agency LEAP got a glimpse into the lives of scientists when they donned lab coats, safety goggles, and purple gloves to take part in a slime-making experiment at Kolltan Pharmaceuticals.
by | Jul 16, 2013 1:11 pm | Comments (2)
Alexion’s planned new downtown home.
Developer Carter Winstanley said he’s confident Alexion Pharmaceuticals won’t abandon plans to move its headquarters into his new $100 million building at 100 College St., despite reports that the company may be acquired by a larger pharmaceutical firm.
If it ever did abandon plans, he’d continue with the building and find a new tenant, he said.
Continue reading ‘Winstanley: Alexion Sale Wouldn’t Stop Us’
by | Dec 14, 2012 12:49 pm | Comments (2)
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He’s got a laser system to track bullet trajectories. He’s got a database of 40,000 sneaker-prints. He’s got ground-penetrating radar. Now New Haven cops have all that — and Dr. Henry Lee himself — on their side.
by | Aug 8, 2012 8:11 am | Comments (2)
Is the Red Planet hiding little green men? Will NASA’s rover “Curiosity” find anything but dust and rocks on the surface of Mars? Will the exploration be a tiny step towards interplanetary colonization?
And what happens if the Martians turn the tables and land a craft of their own on New Haven’s Green?
New Haveners on the Green pondered those questions as a recently landed NASA probe rolled across the surface of Mars on Tuesday (or whatever day it was on the Red Planet).
by | Jun 25, 2012 8:17 am | Comments (9)
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SCSU’s Broadbridge: Ready to send interns.
Imagine a disease in which a part of your immune system runs wild, destroying red blood cells and causing blood clots, strokes and, often, death within a few years.
Now imagine a treatment that can curb that runaway process, saving the red blood cells and therefore the patient.
And try imagining lots of people in New Haven finding work — helping to create or market treatments like that one.
Continue reading ‘Alexion Sales Could Hit $1B; Who Gets The Jobs?’
by | Feb 26, 2012 11:58 am | Comments (2)
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Jean Zheng pulled on the wood, fighting the heavy-duty tension springs to bring a homemade catapult back far enough to load it.
Struggling — and giggling — she finally had to ask for help. Apparently, the fourth-year Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering has brains, but not much brawn.
by | Feb 10, 2012 1:47 pm | Comments (0)
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For the second time in less than a year, the Cornell Scott Hill Health Center cut workers loose Friday as part of a continual restructuring — prompting one laid-off worker to ask how much longer the organization can survive.
Continue reading ‘Facing “Crunch Time,” Hill Health Lays Off 25’
by | Jul 11, 2011 5:38 pm | Comments (4)
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Years ago, when Tony Griego first started working security at the Yale-New Haven Hospital emergency room, he used to tell people that there was a long-forgotten cemetery underground nearby. “They all laughed at me,” he said.
Nobody’s laughing now.
by | Mar 7, 2011 12:19 pm | Comments (5)
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Fitz Walker showing what MED-SEG can do with a mammogram.
Years ago, self-taught inventor Fitz Walker rescued souped up discarded PCs and linked them together into a super-computer in his garage. Using technology from NASA, he developed an invention that could revolutionize medical imaging and bring manufacturing jobs to Newhallville — if he can find investors to back it.
by | Oct 29, 2010 7:46 am | Comments (0)
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A little brown bat snacks on a gypsy moth.
Most of us don’t pay much attention to bats except around Halloween, when bat-like rubber effigies appear on posters, in “haunted” houses, and on devilish front yard decorations.
And most non-bat experts have never seen an actual bat in the wild or backyard.
But they’re there. For now.
by | Jul 12, 2010 11:15 am | Comments (1)
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Nicholas Longrich examines a cast of the skull roof of a Pachycephalosaur, a dinosaur species that he recently named.
“Wait, this doesn’t look like a Chasmosaurus,” Nicholas Longrich thought two years ago, working in a researchers-only collection room in the basement of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Thus began a two-year quest to prove to the scientific world that he had discovered a new species of dinosaur.
by | Feb 15, 2010 12:32 pm | Comments (8)
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Upon arriving, investigators found a shell casing. They found a gold ring, a baseball cap, the victim’s jacket, a bag of Popeye’s chicken. Off to the side, away from the scene, Detective Amanda Leyda noticed broken eyeglasses sticking out of the snow.
That looks odd, she thought. Maybe they have something to do with this murder.
by | Jan 15, 2010 12:30 pm | Comments (1)
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It’s not that all men are selfish, short-sighted louts. Just many of them. But women can take care of themselves, thank you.
by | Jan 6, 2010 9:32 am | Comments (4)
New Haven had plenty of H1N1 flu shots to give out for free — and only six people showed up.
by | Dec 16, 2009 8:16 am | Comments (17)
Thanks to some newfangled radar, archeologists looked for traces of old burial spots on the Green — and found some were closer to the surface than expected.
by | Nov 30, 2009 12:03 pm | Comments (0)
Using a tiny specialized microscope that can see living cells inside patients in real time, physicians at Yale-New Haven Hospital are developing new methods to diagnose pancreatic cancer at an early, more survivable stage.
by | Nov 13, 2009 12:26 pm | Comments (3)
Many people in the U.S. are incapable of rational thought. That makes the explanatory job of science journalists all but impossible. So Newsweek Senor Editor Sharon Begley said during an appearance at Yale.
by | Nov 9, 2009 2:42 pm | Comments (2)
This year’s influenza season is more confusing than usual, with the regular “seasonal” variety arriving along with the emerging H1N1 “swine flu” that appeared last spring.
by | Nov 5, 2009 8:13 am | Comments (19)
Amid an exodus of senior staffers, new CEO Jamesina Henderson vowed to “reinvigorate” New Haven’s oldest and largest community health center.
by | Oct 28, 2009 11:39 pm | Comments (0)
Lynda Wilson (pictured) has been living more than two decades with HIV/AIDS. She’s one of thousands of people for whom medication has changed AIDS from a death sentence into a chronic disease. That surviving face of the disease was on display Wednesday afternoon at a service of healing, prayer and remembrance — as was the grim reality that people are still dying from it.