The traces of organic material found in fossil feathers are remnants of pigments that once gave birds their color, according to Yale scientists whose paper in Biology Letters opens up the potential to depict the original coloration of fossilized birds and...
Some bacterial cells can swim, morph into new forms and even become dangerously virulent – all without initial involvement of DNA. Yale University researchers describe Friday in the journal Science how bacteria accomplish this amazing feat – and in doing...
Within human cells, tiny membrane-bound compartments called vesicles shepherd biomolecules from place to place. How these vesicles form, move and finally fuse to deliver cargo at a particular destination largely remains a mystery, now being investigated...
Climatology, paleontology, geoarcheology and other careers in the geosciences are the subjects of “GEOWhiz,” a new exhibition on view through Labor Day (Sept. 1) at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.“GEOWhiz” was designed and produced by students...
Joan Feigenbaum, newly appointed as the inaugural Grace Murray Hopper Professor of Computer Science, focuses her research on Internet algorithms, computational complexity, security and privacy, and digital copyright.While at Yale, she has been the...