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...
A new study puts an end to the longstanding debate about how archaic birds went extinct, suggesting they were virtually wiped out by the same meteorite impact that put an end to dinosaurs 65 million years ago.For decades, scientists have debated whether...
Used in Hollywood and the advertising industry to create exotic special effects, ferrofluids are seemingly magical materials that are both liquid and magnetic at once. In a study published today in Physical Review B, Yale electrical engineering professor...
Arthur L. Horwich of the Yale School of Medicine was named co-winner of the prestigious 2011 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for his discoveries of how proteins form their complex shapes, the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced Monday....
Evolution adds and subtracts, and nowhere is this math more evident than in vertebrates, which are programmed to have five digits on each limb. But many species do not. Snakes, of course, have no digits, and birds have three.Yale scientists now have a...
Paul Bloom, professor of psychology and author of “How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like,” will explore the science of our moral behavior in this term’s Devane lectures series, titled “Moralities of Everyday Life.”Bloom will give...
Yale University researchers have identified a key genetic gear that keeps the circadian clock of plants ticking, a finding that could have broad implications for global agriculture.The research appears in the Sept. 2 issue of the journal Molecular Cell.“...
Yale University researchers have successfully re-engineered the protein-making machinery in bacteria, a technical tour de force that promises to revolutionize the study and treatment of a variety of diseases.“Essentially, we have expanded the genetic code...
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...