A Yale-led study urges scientists to move their focus from species extinction to species rarity in order to recognize, and avoid, a mass extinction in the modern world.
Writing in the journal Nature the week of Dec. 16, Yale’s Pincelli Hull and colleagues...
Scientists are taking the temperature of ancient seas to discover how they’ve shaped global climate.In a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, a Yale-led research team explored differences in ocean temperatures over the last 5 million years....
Yale University scientists may have cracked a part of the chemical code for one of the most basic, yet mysterious, processes in the natural world — nature’s ability to transform nitrogen from the air into usable nitrogen compounds.
The process is called...
Scientists are getting an unprecedented look at a geological process in South America that mirrors the formation of America’s Rocky Mountains.The revised geometry of the downgoing Nazca plate beneath the Andean mountains in southern Peru and northern...
Ariana Fernandez and her magnetometer have a terrific view of Peru.Admittedly, it’s no postcard image. Fernandez, a senior majoring in archaeological studies, goes in more for soil samples than scenic vistas. Yet with her bits of burnt earth and some...