The search for endangered species is leading scientists to an unexpected place for information — the clouds that shift and swirl around the planet.In a new study, researchers from Yale and the University at Buffalo (UB) say that satellite data about...
It may be even trickier to predict the strength of El Niño weather patterns than previously thought, according to a study by Yale researchers.A new variable — intraseasonal wind bursts — may play an unexpected role in the way El Niño systems develop, the...
A Yale-led study urges scientists to move their focus from species extinction to species rarity in order to recognize, and avoid, a mass extinction in the modern world.
Writing in the journal Nature the week of Dec. 16, Yale’s Pincelli Hull and colleagues...
Normally, Steven Shimada can get to the center of campus in a few minutes from his Yale School of Medicine lab. But one recent afternoon, the trip to Sterling Memorial Library took about 70 years.Shimada, a research associate in anesthesiology, had heard...
Scientists are taking the temperature of ancient seas to discover how they’ve shaped global climate.In a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, a Yale-led research team explored differences in ocean temperatures over the last 5 million years....
Yale University scientists may have cracked a part of the chemical code for one of the most basic, yet mysterious, processes in the natural world — nature’s ability to transform nitrogen from the air into usable nitrogen compounds.
The process is called...