Three years ago, a team of astronomers led by Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum surprised the scientific community with the discovery of a far-off galaxy that contained little or no dark matter.
The discovery, made using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, had the...
The biggest shark attack in history did not involve humans.
A new study by Earth scientists from Yale and the College of the Atlantic has turned up a massive die-off of sharks roughly 19 million years ago. It came at a period in history when there were...
One of Earth’s greatest mysteries is how it transformed itself, ever so gradually, from a barren ball of rock into a launching pad for life.
Earth scientists have spent decades piecing together the relevant clues — identifying and studying the planet’s...
For the first time, astronomers have observed a cosmic boomerang effect — streams of heavy, molecular gas that are stripped away from a distant galaxy only to circle back and return later.
Astronomers at Yale and Arizona State University led the research...
A new Yale study suggests that aerosols in the atmosphere may be temporarily holding down ocean temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific.
The findings, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, are an indication that the surprisingly modest...
This month, Insights & Outcomes marvels at the inner workings of membraneless organelles, the organization of the human brain during adolescence, and a new imaging technique to help understand memory loss in HIV patients.
As always, you can find more...
Handsome Dan has a new bestie.
Her name is Heidi and she’s a 2-year-old yellow Labrador retriever who has been wagging around campus for nearly a year with her partner, Yale Police Officer Rich Simons.
Heidi is a service dog; her sole job is to be a...
Older people living in less advantaged neighborhoods become disabled roughly two years earlier than their counterparts in more affluent neighborhoods, according to a new Yale study.
The findings, published Aug. 23 in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine,...
At a virtual town hall Thursday, President Peter Salovey and experts who guide university health and safety policies outlined Yale’s plan for bringing students, faculty, and staff together for the academic year amid the ongoing challenges of the COVID-19...