Four members of the Yale faculty were elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences this week in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Serap Aksoy, Hui Cao, Lieping Chen, and Debra Fischer were...
Researchers at Yale and Princeton say the scientific community sorely needs a new way to compare the cascading effects of ecosystem loss due to human-induced environmental change to major crises of the past.
For too long, scientists have relied upon...
Alison Sweeney has long suspected the best blueprints for innovation already exist in nature.
They’re encrypted in the iridescence of giant clams. They’re hidden in the eyes of mid-ocean squid. They’re inscribed on the surface patterns of pollen.
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Sperm doesn’t shift into high gear in mammals just to show off, new research shows. It originally needed that extra speed to break the egg barrier.
Later on, evolution enabled sperm to use its souped-up swimming to navigate tricky reproductive pathways...
The 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize recognizes Marc Kamionkowski, Johns Hopkins University, Uroš Seljak of the University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Matias Zaldarriaga of the Institute for Advanced Study, for...
The 2021 Gruber Neuroscience Prize is being awarded to neuroscientists Christine Petit, M.D., Ph.D., of the Institut Pasteur and Collège de France, and Christopher A. Walsh, MD, PhD, of Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital and the Howard...
If paleontologists had a wish list, it would almost certainly include insights into two particular phenomena: how dinosaurs interacted with each other and how they began to fly.
The problem is, using fossils to deduce such behavior is a tricky business....