Carla Staver's research is going up in smoke – and that's a good thing. The professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology has started hundreds of fires – experimental ones – in African savannas to learn more about how they start and stop burning, and...
The discovery in 2019 of a lone small female tortoise living on one of the most inaccessible islands of the Galapagos Islands has baffled evolutionary biologists. Only one other tortoise, a large male discovered in 1906, has ever been found on Fernandina...
Global climate change has already exacerbated the risk of fire and is likely to fuel even more change as accelerating feedback loops create disastrous consequences for both biodiversity and human populations. Yet accurately predicting the risks and impact...
This month, Insights & Outcomes offers an all-star roster of the latest Yale research on the role cravings play in addiction, an innovative way to predict El Niño, a particular type of white blood cell that spills its guts, and the bacterial coatings...
Evolution has long been viewed as a rather random process, with the traits of species shaped by chance mutations and environmental events — and therefore largely unpredictable.
But an international team of scientists led by researchers from Yale...
A surging vitality marked Yale in the year 2022, along with a resumption of ritual and routine — inside classrooms, labs, and studios, on stages and athletic fields, in museums and across quadrangles.
Yale scholars and scientists tackled some of the most...