A study from Yale and Georgia Tech offers new context for a pivotal step in the evolution of life on Earth: the dramatic proliferation of animal life, hundreds of millions of years ago, in the ancient sea.
The prevailing scientific theory has been that...
Yale researchers are charting the course of mighty “rivers” in the sky that are holding steady in the face of climate change — for now.
In future decades, however, climate-induced changes to these atmospheric rivers could drastically increase extreme...
An asteroid strike 66 million years ago wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs and devastated the Earth’s forests, but tree-dwelling ancestors of primates may have survived it, according to a new study published in the journal Ecology and Evolution.
Overall,...
Plants know winter is coming. But exactly how they detect this seasonal change has never been clear.
Yale researchers took a novel approach to understanding a plant’s secrets. They asked one.
And the answer they received — in the form of changes in the...
Score one for a key climate change prediction.
A multi-institutional research team led by Yale and the University of St. Andrews has confirmed a major finding of climate models regarding changes that may occur to Pacific Ocean currents — including those...
The Yale Peabody Museum announced today that it will offer free admission in perpetuity once its galleries reopen in 2024, following the museum’s first major renovation in nearly a century.
The Peabody, which continues to operate many of its programs...
A new study introduces a novel way for tectonic plates — massive sheets of rock that jostle for position in the Earth’s crust and upper mantle — to bend and sink.
It’s a bit of planetary Pilates that may solve the longstanding mystery of “subduction,” the...
From 50,000 years to 6,000 years ago, many of the world’s largest animals, including such iconic grassland grazers as the woolly mammoth, giant bison, and ancient horses, went extinct. The loss of these grazing species triggered a dramatic increase in...
