A key question for climate scientists in recent years has been whether the Atlantic Ocean’s main circulation system is slowing down, a development that could have dramatic consequences for Europe and other parts of the Atlantic rim. But a new study...
Anna Marie Pyle may not wield a nail gun or run a crane, but she’s painstakingly followed the progress of nearly every girder and glass panel for her laboratory’s new home just the same.
It’s been a captivating process to watch, she says, and now she and...
Sometimes, being all that you can be requires a lab coat and a tank full of fruit flies.
Or perhaps, after serving your country, what you need most is a state-of-the-art physics lab, or a network of seismographic stations, or a pair of robotic arms. The...
To understand the most ordinary matter in the universe — and the extraordinary things that happen to it — a Yale-led team of astronomers took a deep dive into the cosmic fog.
They learned intriguing new details about the dynamics of baryons, the...
By 2034, when the Dragonfly drone mission makes landfall on the surface of Titan, Yale’s Juan Lora will have spent nearly half his life studying the climatic tendencies of Saturn’s icy moon.
That’s when the real work will begin, he says.
Finally, after...
After garnering worldwide attention last year for her research on the origins of egg color in birds, Yale paleontologist Jasmina Wiemann has taken a second look at her eggshells.
Wiemann had found that all colors and spots on modern birds’ eggs derived...
Even if you’re not a physicist, phases of matter … really matter. They’re the distinct physical forms taken on by all the “stuff” in the universe, from icebergs to ozone, and now Yale scientists have developed a more accurate way to help classify some of...
“When Whales Walked,” a new TV documentary on the evolutionary origins of some of nature’s most spectacular animals, will feature research and commentary from a pair of Yale paleontologists.
The documentary, created in a first-ever partnership between PBS...
Astronomers have discovered a new class of “cold quasars” that could change our perception of how galaxies mature.
The discovery was announced June 12 at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in St. Louis.
Cold quasars are galaxies that...