by | Feb 11, 2009 11:44 am | Comments (4)
You know something’s wrong with science education when 30 out of 32 Harvard graduates cannot explain why the Northern Hemisphere is warmer in the summer and colder in winter.
Continue reading ‘Ira Flatow Scorns Science For, & By, Dummies’
by | Feb 10, 2009 10:49 am | Comments (0)
Changes in New England’s birds and plants are not being driven by global warming, evolution or ice age cycles, Peter C. Alden told a Yale audience of O.C. Marsh Fellows and friends at the Peabody Museum.
by | Feb 8, 2009 5:23 pm | Comments (0)
Heart disease is the biggest killer of women in the U.S. But women and racial and ethnic minorities are less likely to take action when they suspect a heart problem than are white, middle-aged men. A red-letter event on Saturday aimed to reduce that disparity.
by | Jan 30, 2009 8:07 am | Comments (2)
As the moon flirted with Venus in the western sky Thursday night, Yale officially opened its $1.4 million state-of-the-art Leitner planetarium, which joins a 16-inch telescope in a new complex off Prospect Street.
by | Jan 19, 2009 11:10 am | Comments (6)
Physics is still dominated by men. These three undergraduates — in town for a premier of a scientific drama — are on a career vector they hope will change all that.
Continue reading ‘A Stage Challenge To Today’s Female Physicists’
by | Jan 19, 2009 9:12 am | Comments (0)
New light is shining on people battling depression, as the Hispanic Clinic of the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC) has found a new home.
by | Jan 16, 2009 3:52 pm | Comments (3)
Surgeons at Yale-New Haven Hospital have performed one of the first incisionless appendectomies in the United States.
by | Jan 13, 2009 2:00 pm | Comments (2)
Overeager periodontists are performing gum surgery on their patients, although a less invasive and costly alternative is usually just as effective, David D. Millen says.
by | Jan 8, 2009 3:42 pm | Comments (1)
Early screening for colon cancer is not pleasant, but the disease is much, much worse.
Continue reading ‘Health Centers Pioneer $951K Colonoscopy Study’
by | Jan 2, 2009 11:29 am | Comments (0)
The holiday stress season is reaching its annual crescendo, only this year it’s worse and destined to last into January, a local expert says.
by | Dec 3, 2008 2:33 pm | Comments (2)
The same cold weather physiology that slowly saps life, kept Marc Medina alive, when doctors performed a new procedure at the Hospital of St. Raphael.