For decades, biology textbooks have been clear – our traits are the product of our genes. But a new study by Yale University researchers published Dec. 26 in Nature Genetics suggests another mechanism can regulate variations of traits even in genetically...
An international collaboration of more than 100 scientists, spearheaded by a team of researchers at Yale University, has revealed in unprecedented detail and scope the multi-faceted functions of the genome of the roundworm, one of science’s key model...
Web users around the globe will be able to help professional astronomers in their search for Earth-like planets thanks to a new online citizen science project called Planet Hunters that launches Dec. 16. at www.planethunters.org.Planet Hunters, which is...
Yale University’s Nancy Moran this week received the International Prize for Biology from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science.The William H. Fleming Professor of Biology received the award, which commemorates the 60-year reign of Emperor...
Yale President Richard C. Levin Tuesday named biochemist and innovative educator Scott Strobel as vice-president of West Campus Planning and Program Development, to oversee the second phase of growth at Yale’s 136-acre facility in West Haven.Strobel will...
Astronomers have discovered that small, dim stars known as red dwarfs are much more prolific than previously thought—so much so that the total number of stars in the universe is likely three times bigger than realized.Because red dwarfs are relatively...
More than 550 science journalists will be in New Haven Nov. 5-9 as Yale University and the Yale School of Medicine host ScienceWriters2010, the combined annual meeting of the National Association of Science Writers (NASW) and the Council for the...
While sorting through hundreds of galaxy images as part of the Galaxy Zoo citizen science project two years ago, Dutch schoolteacher and volunteer astronomer Hanny van Arkel stumbled upon a strange-looking object that baffled professional astronomers. Two...
It turns out that the diet of the undisputed king of the dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex, didn’t just include other dinosaurs, but also other T. rex. Paleontologists from the United States and Canada have found bite marks on the giants’ bones that were made...
The food chain — the number of organisms that feed on each other — in the world’s streams and rivers depends more upon the size of the stream and whether the waterways flood or run dry than the amount of available food resources, Yale University and...