Decisions made by Colonial era settlers to dam Connecticut waterways triggered sudden and parallel evolutionary changes in two species of fish competing for food, a new Yale University study shows.From Bride Lake in Connecticut, an alewife with access to...
Don’t be fooled by its simplicity — it’s more than a plain wooden box.“It’s a rough-draft room,” says Robert Loweth ’16, of an eight-foot-cubed wooden structure, which more closely resembles a kid’s clubhouse than a testing chamber.Loweth — a mechanical...
Yale geology and geophysics professor Ruth Blake recently completed a tour of duty as lead scientist aboard the exploration vessel Nautilus, during the Windward Passage leg of the ship’s 2014 exploration season.Professor Ruth Blake was on the E/V Nautilus...
A century after its extinction, the passenger pigeon is gone but not forgotten.Peabody exhibit preparator Michael Anderson sets up the “From Billions to Zero” display. (Photo by Jim Shelton)“From Billions to Zero,” a new exhibit at the Yale Peabody Museum...
Original photographs, sculptures, paintings, and drawings of the natural world created by staff members at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History are featured in an exhibition now on view in the first-floor corridor of Yale’s Class of 1954...
As part of the expansion of renewable resources on campus, a 1.2 megawatt array of solar panels covering more than 350,000 square feet of roof area will be installed at West Campus. (Photo by Michael Marsland)
President Peter Salovey has announced a...