Like humans with their left-sided hearts, plants also can display asymmetric forms, such as helically twisted flowers and tendrils. A team of Yale scientists have recently discovered a mechanism that controls whether plant organs are helical.
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People know a smell is popcorn whether it is cooking down the hallway or held right under their noses. Yale researchers Douglas Storace and Lawrence Cohen in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology have found that an early step during the...
Two Yale faculty members, Kate Baldwin and Jeffrey Townsend, were appointed to endowed professorships.
Baldwin, named as the Peter Strauss Family Assistant Professor of Political Science, focuses her research on political accountability, state building,...
Novelist Deji Bryce Olukotun ’00 B.A. began writing fiction as a school kid. He would submit short stories to his teachers that they had not assigned him.
“They’d say, ‘Sure, fine, but you’re not going to get extra credit for it,’” Olukotun said. “I didn’...
We may not be able to time a live Tyrannosaurus rex in the 100-yard dash, but scientists say they now have a good sense of the maximum speed for many of the world’s largest animals, past and present.
In a study published July 17 in Nature Ecology and...
The Silent Protest Parade on Fifth Avenue on July 28, 1917, one of the first major mass demonstrations by African Americans, will be the focus of a special display of four historic photographs at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, on view from...