Jack Ward Thomas, former chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, will speak at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies on Dec. 7 at 4:30 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. Thomas currently is the...
Chemical reactions in the Earth’s middle crust that cause rocks to dehydrate and fracture under pressure may trigger repeated earthquakes along some fault zones, according to research published in the Nov. 15 issue of the Geophysical Research Letters,...
Yale and Cornell University biochemists have unveiled the three-dimensional chemical structure of a key protein that is the target of TNP-470, an experimental drug that shows promise for starving cancerous tumors. The discovery could help pharmaceutical...
Long before the dinosaurs ruled Earth, the planet was populated by tiny, wriggling creatures that left behind traces of their passage in the form of elaborate swirls and other patterns permanently preserved in stone. Examples of these and other “...
In a Peruvian valley only recently touched by the pressures of urbanization, Yale University scientists have found evidence of ancient Andean metallurgy dating as far back as 3,400 years ago, almost a millennium earlier than previously thought. Thin...
Henry P. Becton, director emeritus of Becton Dickinson and Company, will present the next Sheffield Fellowship address at Yale University. His talk, titled “Bringing a 100-year-old Company into its Second Century,” will be presented Tuesday, Nov. 17, at...