Yale physicists have developed an error-correcting cat — a new device that combines the Schrödinger’s cat concept of superposition (a physical system existing in two states at once) with the ability to fix some of the trickiest errors in a quantum...
A nifty move with nitrogen has brought the world one step closer to creating a range of useful products — from dyes to pharmaceuticals — out of thin air.
The discovery comes from a team of Yale chemists who found a way to combine atmospheric nitrogen with...
Step aside, skeletons — a new world of biochemical “signatures” found in all kinds of ancient fossils is revealing itself to paleontologists, providing a new avenue for insights into major evolutionary questions.
In a new study published in the journal...
The story of life on Earth is a tale of beginnings and endings — and of the interplay of geochemical forces, plate tectonics, and climate cycles over millions of years.
Now, a team of researchers led by Yale and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
The first dinosaur eggs had a soft shell, say paleontologists from Yale and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH).
The finding upends decades of conventional wisdom by the scientific community. For many years there was scant fossil evidence of...
It beats like a busy signal — one scientists were excited to get.
A new study in Nature reports the discovery of a fast radio burst (FRB) that pulses at regular intervals — every 16.35 days — from a nearby galaxy.
“Some FRBs are known to repeat, but only...
Clay is king for creating ancient fossils.
In a new study, researchers confirmed that kaolinite, a mineral found in certain fine-grained rocks around the world, is a key ingredient for preserving some of the earliest forms of complex life.
The researchers...
‘Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object to pass through Earth’s solar system, has been called many things: a comet, an asteroid, a cigar-shaped spaceship.
Now it has a new description: Astronomers at Yale and the University of Chicago say it’s a...
Yale geophysicists reported that Earth’s ever-shifting, underground network of tectonic plates was firmly in place more than 4 billion years ago — at least a billion years earlier than scientists generally thought.
Tectonic plates are large slabs of rock...
A new, Yale-led study shows that some supermassive black holes actually thrive under pressure.
It has been known for some time that when distant galaxies — and the supermassive black holes within their cores — aggregate into clusters, these clusters...