As a child living in a rural area in eastern Tibet, His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje recalls a natural environment that was pristine and untarnished by modern development.It was there, he said during his Chubb Fellowship Lecture at Yale...
John Lorsch, director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) at the National Institutes of Health, present a talk at Yale titled “Developing a More Efficient, Productive, and Sustainable Biomedical Research Enterprise” on Tuesday,...
They weren’t in the delivery room, but researchers at Yale University and the University of Toronto have discovered a new birth story for a gigantic marine lizard that once roamed the oceans.Thanks to recently identified specimens at the Yale Peabody...
The dinosaur with an identity crisis is standing on its own four legs again.The venerable Brontosaurus excelsus, that gargantuan, long-necked sauropod that roamed the earth 150 million years ago, has reclaimed a distinct spot in the fossil record. New...
Yale’s Joan A. Steitz is the recipient of the 2015 Connecticut Medal of Science for her pioneering work in understanding the structure and function of RNA, announced the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE).Joan SteitzThe Medal of Science...
Scientists are coming to grips with the superior grasping ability of humans and other primates throughout history.In a new study, a research team led by Yale University found that even the oldest known human ancestors may have had precision grip...