Zoologist Katharine Jeannette Bush published a scholarly article in 1899 “based on a small, but very interesting, collection of gastropods belonging to the genus Turbonilla” that a “Mr. Pilsbry” had loaned to her for study.
Bush, a protégé of the renowned...
Assistant professor of physics Laura Newburgh is part of a Canadian-led experiment that has detected the second-known example of a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) originating far outside the Milky Way galaxy.
Newburgh is co-author of a pair of new...
Researchers have discovered the brightest quasar yet known, detected from the period when the universe’s star-making hydrogen gas became ionized, known as “reionization.”
The international research team found the quasar’s exceptional brightness to be...
It was standing room only for the latest “Project Pitch” event at the Department of Statistics and Data Science, in which faculty members outlined research projects that could use a helping hand from a young data scientist.
The topics came from across the...
A new study led by Yale University astronomers tells the story of a galaxy that ran out of gas.
It’s a story as old as the universe itself: A galaxy is born, brimming with new stars, its spiral arms stretching and curving. But then it runs into trouble,...
The second law of thermodynamics states that all closed systems tend towards disorder over time and maintain order through the expenditure of energy.
In most developing organisms, scientists assumed that most of the energy was expended on the replication...