Yale geophysicists may have unraveled one of the great, unsolved mysteries about the Earth’s interior – why the mantle appears both well mixed and unmixed at the same time. The Earth’s mantle is the 1,800-mile thick layer of rock between the crust and...
A Yale astronomer and collaborators using X-ray, radio, and optical telescopes have announced a major clarification in the origin of mysterious objects known as X-ray flashes. The researchers found that X-ray flashes originate from blue star forming...
A Yale astronomer and collaborators using X-ray, radio, and optical telescopes have announced a major clarification in the origin of mysterious objects known as X-ray flashes. The researchers found that X-ray flashes originate from blue star forming...
Using a novel dating technique, Yale geologists have discovered that desert sands found in Utah actually originated in the Appalachian Mountains in eastern North America. “This surprising finding suggests that an ancient westward-flowing river system...
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Connecticut has teamed up with faculty and staff in Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences to create a high school internship program that fosters interest in science...
Rajendra K. Pachauri, chair of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, will discuss “The Third Assessment Report of the IPCC and Beyond,” on Wednesday, Sept. 10, at 10 a.m. in Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall at the Yale School of Forestry &...
Yale paleontologist Derek Briggs, a leading authority on the Burgess Shale fossils, will hold a news conference at the Peabody Museum August 28 at 2:30 p.m. to discuss “The Burgess Shale: Evolution’s Big Bang” exhibit, which will open August 30. “The...
To: Editors and Reporters Re: Mars Opposition to Earth on August 27Mars, our neighbor planet, will be 34,650,000 miles away from Earth on Wednesday, August 27, the closest it has been to Earth in nearly 60,000 years. And it won’t be this close again for...
The cost of wildfires is vastly underestimated because federal and state agencies do not share or collect enough data on the impacts of fires, according to a report released by the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry at the Yale School of Forestry...
Yale researchers working with colleagues at Indiana University have added a giant electronic camera to a veteran telescope at Palomar observatory that will be used to look for distant galaxies, supernovae, asteroids and other objects in the sky. “We are...