An image created in the Yale lab of Bhart-Anjan Bhullar, assistant professor and assistant curator in the Department of Geology and Geophysics, has won a BioArt Competition award from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
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For Yale’s David Post, it is the unintended consequence of his research and training project in Africa that may have the most lasting impact.
Post, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, heads a research laboratory that is giving Yale students and...
Near Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., a population of mosquitoes capable of transmitting tropical diseases is hunkering down for a sixth straight winter. A new study of this group of Aedes aegypti shows they originated in Florida and, unlike their...
Yale astronomers have taken a fresh look at the nearby Alpha Centauri star system and found new ways to narrow the search for habitable planets there.
According to a study led by Professor Debra Fischer and graduate student Lily Zhao, there may be small,...
This article originally appeared in Yale Engineering magazine.
We have a long history of yelling at our machines — cars that break down, televisions broadcasting our failing teams. But now, our machines understand us. And they’re talking back. They’re...
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has named Marla Geha, professor of astronomy and physics, as one of its new HHMI Professors chosen for their extraordinary teaching, inspiration, and mentoring of the next generation of science students.
Geha...
The unusual melting behavior of the second most abundant mineral in the Earth may affect key processes deep within the Earth, according to a new study.
Research by geoscientists at Yale suggests that convection in Earth’s mantle — the slow movement of...
New research by Yale University scientists suggests rocky planets orbiting other stars may hide thick layers of diamond beneath the surface.
“A carbon-rich planet likely forms from a material called silicon carbide, but at the high temperatures inside of...
Yale researchers have found an ancient fossil relative of sea urchins and starfish that displays a markedly different water vascular system — used for feeding and movement — compared to its modern counterparts.
The fossil, a specimen of Protasterina...
Beneath its rugged, rocky exterior, New England is wicked hot and on the move, a new study says.
Geophysicists at Yale and Rutgers have found a localized region of New England’s upper mantle, centered beneath Vermont and New Hampshire, that is unusually...