As climate change continues to emerge as the biggest challenge of the 21st century, the race to come up with novel ways to deal with the threat has become more urgent than ever. Carbon capture and storage – which involves removing carbon dioxide, the main...
A team of Yale University scientists has engineered the cell wall of the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, tricking it into incorporating foreign small molecules and embedding them within the cell wall.The finding, described online in the journal ACS...
Scientists once believed that proteins govern most cellular activities. However in recent years scientists have found that a diverse group of RNA molecules regulate numerous biological activities. Despite their ancient origin, these RNA molecules have...
Yale University’s Nancy Moran, the William H. Fleming Professor of Biology, has been awarded the International Prize for Biology by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science for her work on symbiotic relationships between insects and bacteria that...
Yale University researchers have developed a tool for biodiversity conservation in the face of global change: a statistical model that helps predict the risk of extinction for almost 90% of the world’s bird species.“Our global study confirms and extends...
The food chain — the number of organisms that feed on each other — in the world’s streams and rivers depends more upon the size of the stream and whether the waterways flood or run dry than the amount of available food resources, Yale University and...
It turns out that the diet of the undisputed king of the dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex, didn’t just include other dinosaurs, but also other T. rex. Paleontologists from the United States and Canada have found bite marks on the giants’ bones that were made...
By examining the type of rock in which dinosaur fossils were embedded, an often unappreciated part of the remains, scientists have determined that different species of North American dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous period 65 million years ago occupied...
Yale’s comprehensive Conservation Center has been awarded an endowment challenge grant of $1.5 million from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create and endow the position of Director of Scientific Research, a key component of Yale’s plan to establish...