Clay is king for creating ancient fossils.
In a new study, researchers confirmed that kaolinite, a mineral found in certain fine-grained rocks around the world, is a key ingredient for preserving some of the earliest forms of complex life.
The researchers...
The first dinosaur eggs had a soft shell, say paleontologists from Yale and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH).
The finding upends decades of conventional wisdom by the scientific community. For many years there was scant fossil evidence of...
It beats like a busy signal — one scientists were excited to get.
A new study in Nature reports the discovery of a fast radio burst (FRB) that pulses at regular intervals — every 16.35 days — from a nearby galaxy.
“Some FRBs are known to repeat, but only...
This month, Insights & Outcomes gets into the flow of Yale research — from the movement of RNA within the human body to the circulation of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
As always, you can find more science and medicine research news on the Science...
The COVID-19 pandemic’s devastating economic impact has intensified the need for timely and reliable economic data. A team of social scientists led by Nobel Prize-winning Yale economist William Nordhaus has pioneered a new approach to appraising the state...
The assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March in 44 B.C.E. triggered a 17-year power struggle that ultimately ended the Roman Republic leading to the rise of the Roman Empire. To the south, Egypt, which Cleopatra was attempting to restore as a...