Kia Nobre really had no intention of leaving Oxford. A renowned cognitive neuroscientist, she’d chaired the venerable university’s Department of Experimental Psychology for several years and directed the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, where she...
Astronomers have found the oldest-known X-ray quasar in the universe — and its properties align exactly with predictions for a new class of distant objects made by Yale astronomer Priyamvada Natarajan and her research group.
In a new study in the journal...
The mystery of Ezekiel’s Wheel — the extinct sea creature, not the Biblical vision — may have taken its final turn, thanks to Yale paleontologists.
In so doing, the researchers have also finally put a scientific name to the favorite fossil of a beloved...
At first glance, tube-eyes and cods seem nothing alike. The former, a ribbon-shaped, deep-sea fish, has bizarre tubular eyes that resemble goggles. The latter, one of the world’s most commercially important fishes, has unremarkable looks but pairs well...
Yale paleontologist Pincelli Hull, whose research into ancient marine life and ocean ecosystems has led to new insights into long-ago mass extinction events and what they might tell us about today’s changing planet, has been named a 2023 Schmidt Science...
Chiara Mingarelli, a physicist with a passion for science communication, devotes much of her professional time to deciphering the furtive chirps of gravitational waves from the far reaches of the universe.
But that is not her only entry point for the ways...
“Life on Our Planet,” a new Netflix documentary series co-produced by Steven Spielberg, bears a hefty amount of Yale science DNA.
Not only does it feature the feathered dinosaur Deinonychus, identified by Yale paleontologist John Ostrom in the 1960s, and...
The Great North American Eclipse, Part I, is coming to a telescope near you on Saturday.
More formally called an annular solar eclipse, the celestial event will chart a course through western parts of North America on Oct. 14. It will look like a ring of...
Scientists at Yale and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) say they’ve hit the jackpot with some valuable new information about the story of gold.
It’s a story that begins with violent collisions of large objects in space, continues in a half-melted...
Matthew Eisaman hasn’t had much of a chance yet to explore the nooks and crannies of the Yale campus. His schedule is pretty full trying to help save the planet.
Since arriving in July, Eisaman, an associate professor in the Department of Earth &...