Blue-green algae are getting their day in the sun — not that they need much of it. A new analysis of their molecular makeup could lead to better solar technology and crops that grow just fine with less sunlight.
In a new study in the journal Science...
Later this month, you might spot Yale College seniors Gemma Shepherd and Addison Luck plastering dining halls around campus with posters about some ingredients often in the news: greenhouse gases.
It’s part of an effort endorsed by both Yale Hospitality...
Yale paleontologist Derek Briggs has won the Lapworth Medal, the highest award of the Paleontological Association.
Briggs is the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Geology & Geophysics and curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Yale Peabody...
A Yale-led study turns up the heat on a key question about dinosaurs’ body temperature: Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded?
According to a new technique that analyzes the chemistry of dinosaur eggshells, the answer is warm.
“Dinosaurs sit at an...
Neither wind, nor rain — nor massive sheets of ice — have kept Earth’s birds from their appointed rounds of migrating to better climes, according to a new study.
That’s the conclusion of a new study from the Max Planck-Yale Center for Biodiversity...
When they’re not treating patients with heart disease, Drs. Nihar Desai and Tariq Ahmad are hard at work revising the definition of heart disease.
Ahmad, an assistant professor in the section of cardiovascular medicine at the Yale School of Medicine,...
Physicists from Yale are looking deep beneath a mountain in central Italy for proof of how matter was created in the universe — and a new batch of data is narrowing the search.
The Yale researchers, part of an international collaboration called the...
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has named a trio of Yale astronomers among its inaugural class of fellows.
Sarbani Basu, professor and chair of the Department of Astronomy; Debra Fischer, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy; and Meg Urry,...
Brooke Russell is all about big ideas.
Since successfully defending her graduate thesis in December — and becoming the first African-American woman to earn a Yale Ph.D. in physics — Russell has joined the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in...
Yale geologists have identified the deepest pieces of Earth’s crust ever found in the United States or Canada — in the rolling hills of northern Connecticut.
Tiny bits of quartz and other minerals, inside garnet crystals, tell the story of a tectonic...