Flowering plants may have appeared on earth tens of millions of years earlier than the fossil record indicates, suggests a new analysis by researchers at Yale University and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, published the week of March 15 in the...
An international team led by Yale University has, for the first time, measured the mass of a type of supernova thought to belong to a unique subclass and confirmed that it surpasses what was believed to be an upper mass limit. Their findings, which appear...
“Diary of an Infidel,” a short, one-act play adapted from a story by surgeon-writer Dr. Richard Selzer, will be performed in the McNeill Lecture Hall of the Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street, on April 24 at 8 p.m. and April 25 at 2 p.m....
Yale scientists and researchers now have a comprehensive online tool they can use to share and discuss research projects, data, lab protocols, results, news of clinical trials and advances in clinical care.It is called the YCCI Research Accelerator (RA),...
For a brief instant, it appears, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island recently discovered a law of nature had been broken.Action still resulted in an equal and opposite reaction, gravity kept the Earth circling the Sun, and...
When Jo Handelsman was 16 years old, she read a book by the late Yale plant physiologist Arthur Galston and became convinced her ambition to help feed the world was not misplaced.More than three decades later, she occupies the late Galston’s former office...
Yale University is seeking adults between the ages of 70 and 89 to take part in a lifestyle intervention study to determine whether exercise or health education can prevent or delay major mobility disability in older adults.Little is known about whether...
Almost a decade after the first draft of the human genome was published, scientists now know that many differences among individuals arise not only from the content of their genes but where and when those genes are expressed.Now a Yale-led team of...
Yale Environment 360 has won the award for best video in the 2010 National Magazine Awards for Digital Media for an original report that it produced and posted on the site about mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia.The video, “Leveling Appalachia...
Yale Professor Jacob Hacker, who has helped to craft policies that are the foundation of health care reform, can provide answers to many questions of interest to ordinary citizens. A seasoned commentator with significant media experience, Professor Hacker...