Older patients have a much higher chance of developing a severe disability when they are hospitalized for an acute illness or injury such as a fall, according to a new Yale study.
Doctors say relatively little is known about the underlying processes that...
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...
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...
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 doctors have developed a technique to predict whether cancer patients receiving a common chemotherapy drug are likely to experience heart failure as a result.
The chemotherapy drug, called doxorubicin, is used to treat a number of cancers, including...
Two Yale faculty members — Maureen Long and Elena Gracheva — are finalists for 2020 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists, the world’s largest unrestricted prize for early-career scientists.
Thirty-one scientists have been chosen as finalists...