“Why do plants have thorns?” is an easy question: The thorns help protect against hungry animals that like to munch on the plants. “Where do thorns come from?” is a more complicated question — but Yale scientists have found an answer.
Their insight,...
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...
Yale’s research labs are coming back to life — with new safety measures in place and a renewed sense of purpose.
Since June 1, the start of a broad, three-phase reactivation of campus, an estimated 4,000 faculty members, graduate students, and staff...
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...
The 2020 Gruber Neuroscience Prize is being awarded to three neuroscientists — Friedrich Bonhoeffer, of the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology; Corey Goodman, of venBio; and Marc Tessier-Lavigne, of Stanford University — for their...