During the holiday season, it’s not unusual to be serenaded by Yale’s many choirs and a cappella ensembles caroling around campus. But this past December, only in Yale’s Center for Engineering Innovation & Design (CEID) could you be treated to an...
Earth’s earliest primates have taken a step up in the world, now that researchers have gotten a good look at their ankles.A new study has found that Purgatorius, a small mammal that lived on a diet of fruit and insects, was a tree dweller. Paleontologists...
The ribosome is the protein-making “factory” within cells responsible for knitting together amino acids into polypeptide chains that form proteins.This process requires numerous factors. One of the most crucial is elongation factor G (EF-G), shown in...
Yale University astronomers have identified the first “changing look” quasar, a gleaming object in deep space that appears to have its own dimmer switch.
This artist's rending shows “before” and “after” images of a changing look quasar.
The discovery may...