Ariana Fernandez and her magnetometer have a terrific view of Peru.Admittedly, it’s no postcard image. Fernandez, a senior majoring in archaeological studies, goes in more for soil samples than scenic vistas. Yet with her bits of burnt earth and some...
Anti-poverty research led by a Yale University economist may have cracked the data code for helping the world’s poorest citizens. Gathering data from six countries, the researchers tested a comprehensive approach for helping ultra-poor citizens — those 1...
Scientists are getting an unprecedented look at a geological process in South America that mirrors the formation of America’s Rocky Mountains.The revised geometry of the downgoing Nazca plate beneath the Andean mountains in southern Peru and northern...
Scientists are taking the temperature of ancient seas to discover how they’ve shaped global climate.In a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, a Yale-led research team explored differences in ocean temperatures over the last 5 million years....
Normally, Steven Shimada can get to the center of campus in a few minutes from his Yale School of Medicine lab. But one recent afternoon, the trip to Sterling Memorial Library took about 70 years.Shimada, a research associate in anesthesiology, had heard...
A Yale-led study urges scientists to move their focus from species extinction to species rarity in order to recognize, and avoid, a mass extinction in the modern world.
Writing in the journal Nature the week of Dec. 16, Yale’s Pincelli Hull and colleagues...