Thanks to some astrophysical sleuthing, researchers have pinpointed an early galactic merger that helped shape the Milky Way.
The merger — a collision, actually — happened 11.5 billion years ago. That’s when a small galaxy called Gaia-Enceladus slammed...
Yale doctors have developed a way to create vascular grafts from stem cells that are as strong as the original blood vessels they would replace.
The advance, demonstrated in an animal model, may lead to bioengineered grafts suitable for transplant into...
Volcanic activity did not play a direct role in the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs, according to an international, Yale-led team of researchers. It was all about the asteroid.
In a break from a number of other recent studies, Yale...
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has honored chemist John C. Tully and psychologist Richard N. Aslin, both of Yale, with 2020 awards for scientific achievement. The academy announced honors for 15 scientists Jan. 22 in a range of fields spanning the...
Ambre Dromgoole and Davis Butner are hitting their scholarly stride in the sweet spot between art and science.
Their projects are quite different from each other. Dromgoole, a third-year doctoral student in religious studies and African American studies,...
Blue-green algae are getting their day in the sun — not that they need much of it. A new analysis of their molecular makeup could lead to better solar technology and crops that grow just fine with less sunlight.
In a new study in the journal Science...
A Yale-led study turns up the heat on a key question about dinosaurs’ body temperature: Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded?
According to a new technique that analyzes the chemistry of dinosaur eggshells, the answer is warm.
“Dinosaurs sit at an...
Neither wind, nor rain — nor massive sheets of ice — have kept Earth’s birds from their appointed rounds of migrating to better climes, according to a new study.
That’s the conclusion of a new study from the Max Planck-Yale Center for Biodiversity...
Physicists from Yale are looking deep beneath a mountain in central Italy for proof of how matter was created in the universe — and a new batch of data is narrowing the search.
The Yale researchers, part of an international collaboration called the...
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has named a trio of Yale astronomers among its inaugural class of fellows.
Sarbani Basu, professor and chair of the Department of Astronomy; Debra Fischer, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy; and Meg Urry,...