Islands jutting up from the world’s oceans provided environmental conditions necessary for early life to flourish, a new study co-authored by a Yale scientist suggests.
Significantly, the finding offers important evidence supporting one of the most...
A new study suggests that tiny, mineral grains — squeezed and mixed over millions of years — set in motion the chain of events that plunge massive tectonic plates deep into the Earth’s interior.
The theory, proposed by Yale scientists David Bercovici and...
At least 14 Yale faculty members and researchers have been included in a list of 1,000 inspiring Black scientists in America appearing in Cell Mentor, an online resource for researchers.
The list was compiled by The Community of Scholars, a group of...
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has presented the 2021 Michael and Sheila Held Prize to Daniel Spielman, Sterling Professor of Computer Science and professor of statistics and data science, for helping to solve a theoretical problem that had vexed...
What is RNA? How do mRNA vaccines work, and how effective are they? What does this mean for the COVID-19 pandemic? In a short video, Yale experts Saad Omer, Onyema Ogbuagu, and Akiko Iwasaki explain the science.
This month, Insights & Outcomes is going deep — into ancient oceans, proteins within human cells, and the Earth’s mantle.
As always, you can find more science and medicine research news on YaleNews’ Science & Technology and Health & Medicine...
This article originally appeared in Yale Engineering Magazine.
Inside a tumor, chatter abounds. Multiple cell types are constantly communicating with each other, exchanging various types of information. Some are working together against the tumor, while...