Bonnie Fleming, a professor of physics in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and faculty member of Yale’s Wright Lab, has taken on a prominent new role as chief research officer and deputy director at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National...
Extra waves may be great for surfers, but they can lead to tumultuous weather when they start showing up in jet streams.
That’s because jet streams — blowing ribbons of wind that encircle the earth — play a critical role in the location and severity of...
To better understand what drives biological diversity on Earth, scientists have historically looked at genetic differences between species. But this only provides part of the picture. The traits of a particular species are not merely the result of its...