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...
Twelve-month-old infants can use previous observations as a basis to understand new interactions, although five-month-olds cannot, according to a Yale study. “This finding shows not only that one-year-old infants are paying attention to the actions of...
Yale geophysicists may have unraveled one of the great, unsolved mysteries about the Earth’s interior – why the mantle appears both well mixed and unmixed at the same time. The Earth’s mantle is the 1,800-mile thick layer of rock between the crust and...
A Yale astronomer and collaborators using X-ray, radio, and optical telescopes have announced a major clarification in the origin of mysterious objects known as X-ray flashes. The researchers found that X-ray flashes originate from blue star forming...
A Yale astronomer and collaborators using X-ray, radio, and optical telescopes have announced a major clarification in the origin of mysterious objects known as X-ray flashes. The researchers found that X-ray flashes originate from blue star forming...
Using a novel dating technique, Yale geologists have discovered that desert sands found in Utah actually originated in the Appalachian Mountains in eastern North America. “This surprising finding suggests that an ancient westward-flowing river system...
To: Editors and Reporters Re: Mars Opposition to Earth on August 27Mars, our neighbor planet, will be 34,650,000 miles away from Earth on Wednesday, August 27, the closest it has been to Earth in nearly 60,000 years. And it won’t be this close again for...
Yale researchers working with colleagues at Indiana University have added a giant electronic camera to a veteran telescope at Palomar observatory that will be used to look for distant galaxies, supernovae, asteroids and other objects in the sky. “We are...