Scientists have discovered a very well preserved, ocean dwelling creature from 425-million-year-old rocks in the United Kingdom that may be the world’s oldest fossil animal that is definitively male, according to a study published this week in Science....
Parental involvement and religious practices, such as prayer or reading the Bible, can at times protect urban youth from the effects of witnessing or experiencing violence, according to a study at Yale. Exposure to violence and low social economic...
Yale Chemistry Professor William Jorgensen is the new editor of the Journal of Chemical Information & Computer Science (JCIS), published by the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society. Jorgensen, a computer methods...
People vote on an issue based on the facts and their ideology, or personal beliefs, but they disregard both the facts and their personal beliefs when they are aware of their political party’s position, according to a Yale study. Moreover, people are not...
Yale researchers are building a community atlas that provides the expression patterns of every gene in every cell type in rice – one of the first cereals cultivated on earth, and the principal food source for half of the world’s population. The four-...
A Yale University science faculty member is available for comment about the solar storm, which is expected to send particles to Earth at noontime today. Sabatino Sofia, professor of astronomy and director of Yale’s Center for Solar & Space Research,...
In the release “Yale Receives $4.9 Million Grant for International Genome Study” that was sent this morning, please add the following sentence at the beginning of the 6th paragragh, beginning NHGRI Director …. The National Human Genome Research...
An analysis of the smallest microbial genome ever sequenced supports theories that life may have originated in a hot and fiery primeval earth, according to Yale researchers and collaborators. N. equitans defines a new kingdom, Nanoarchaeota in the...
Yale researchers are taking part in an ambitious, $36 million, three-year pilot study that will test efficient, high-throughput methods for identifying, locating and fully analyzing all of the functional elements contained in a set of DNA target regions...
Children are just as likely to choose a small toy as candy when offered both on Halloween, according to a Yale study. Given the choice between lollipops, fruit-flavored chewy candies, fruit flavored crunchy wafers, and sweet and tart hard candies, or...