The ancient burrowers of the seafloor have been getting a bum rap for years.
These prehistoric dirt churners — a wide assortment of worms, trilobites, and other animals that lived in Earth’s oceans hundreds of millions of years ago — are thought to have...
A Yale study has found that a self-conducted test involving the thumb and palm of one hand could help alert thousands of people each year to their risk of having a hidden aortic aneurysm.
Aortic aneurysms are the 13th most common cause of death among...
For two years running, the road to one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics has gone through New Haven.
In both 2020 and 2021, an Abel Prize — considered by many the Nobel Prize of math — was awarded to a Yale-affiliated mathematician: first...
For more than 150 years, Juneteenth celebrations across America have commemorated the end of slavery with cultural and educational events that reflect on the past while pointing toward a more equitable future.
Juneteenth recognizes the anniversary of June...
Diatoms — tiny phytoplankton that are responsible for a fifth of all energy converted into matter by plants — may have become important much earlier in the development of Earth’s ocean ecosystems and carbon cycle than previously thought, according to a...
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...