Researchers at Yale and the University of California-Riverside recently identified a key similarity in the way water oxidation occurs in green plants and bacteria during photosynthesis.
The researchers, who published their findings in the Journal of...
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...
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...
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...