A team of scientists has discovered the youngest dinosaur preserved in the fossil record before the catastrophic meteor impact 65 million years ago. The finding indicates that dinosaurs did not go extinct prior to the impact and provides further evidence...
Yale School of Medicine researchers have described for the first time the structure of a member in an enigmatic family of proteins linked to Alzheimer’s disease, a crucial early step in understanding key mechanisms of the disease and designing drugs to...
Yale researchers for the first time have captured the chemical reaction that occurs when a protein is created — one of life’s most basic processes.Proteins are synthesized within cells by ribosomes, which take genetic information encoded by DNA and...
Where do turtles belong on the evolutionary tree? For decades, the mystery has proven as tough to crack as the creatures’ shells. With their body armor and retractable heads, turtles are such unique creatures that scientists have found it difficult to...
Yale University researchers can’t tell you where you left your car keys — but they can tell you why you can’t find them.A new study published July 27 in the journal Nature shows that the neural networks in the brains of the middle-aged and elderly have...
Fifty million years ago, crocodiles roamed the Arctic and palm trees grew in Alaska. But just how hot the Earth got during this period of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide has remained a mystery.Now a team of scientists from Yale and Syracuse...