A group of high school students met Yale’s Ziad Ganim at the Yale Farm’s Lazarus Pavilion on a hot Friday morning. There, they found a large table containing various samples of compost, stinging nettle, and fungus-infected tomato leaves from around the...
On an ancient seafloor, burrowing animals appeared and churned up sediment as a sort of opening act for the Cambrian explosion, the rapid emergence and spread of animal species that began 540 million years ago.
However, this diverse group of animals,...