A new look at mountain birds is helping Yale University researchers test long-held assumptions about species richness in high elevations.
The idea that species diversity decreases as you move into higher elevations — after a potential peak at middle...
Big data is getting bigger. By 2025, genomics will have surpassed astronomy, Twitter, and YouTube to become the largest data-generating enterprise by far. What began 65 years ago when Watson, Crick, and Franklin unlocked the double helix of DNA has become...
Four Yale affiliates — two current undergraduates and two Yale College alumni — are among the 35 U.S. citizens named as Gates Cambridge Scholars for 2018.
They are Robert Henderson ’18, Malina Simard-Halm ’18, Jane Menton ’15, and Seth Kolker ’15....
Scientists have identified a mineral signature for sites that are more likely to contain rare fossils that preserve evidence of soft tissue — essential information to understanding ancient life.
Much of what we know about the earliest life on Earth comes...
When Yale economist Joseph Shapiro was a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about a decade ago, he attempted a cost-benefit analysis of the 1972 Clean Water Act — the federal law governing water quality in the country’s rivers,...
Five Yale faculty members are among 126 U.S. and Canadian researchers who were awarded a $65,000 Sloan Research Fellowship to advance their work.
The fellowship program honors early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify...
Human cancers often have a little recognized ally — the increased size and number of a cell’s organelles called the nucleolus. The nucleolus is where ribosomes, the cellular protein factories, are made. Ribosomes can also be hijacked by cancer to...
