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...
Critically acclaimed food writer and memorialist Claudia Roden, who turned the pleasures of eating into a division of cultural anthropology, will give a talk on the worlds contained in a bowl of soup, at 5 p.m. on October 28, in the Whitney Humanities...
Lowering levels of a key protein involved in regulating learning and memory—STtriatal-Enriched tyrosine Phosphatase (STEP)—reversed cognitive deficits in mice with Alzheimer’s disease, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the October 18 issue of...
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...
Yale University researchers have found a gene that seems to be a key contributor to the onset of depression and is a promising target for a new class of antidepressants, they report Oct. 17 in the journal Nature Medicine.“This could be a primary cause, or...
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...
This fall, the Yale World Fellows Program will launch a year-long series of public events that will explore what it means to be a citizen in today’s interconnected world.Capitalizing on the Yale World Fellows’ broad fields of expertise and multinational...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found that new disease pathways involving more than one cell type leads to Type 1 Gaucher disease, a rare genetic disorder in which fatty substances called glycosphingolipids accumulate in cells, resulting in...
November 3 will be Doonesbury Day at Yale, when Garry Trudeau (B.A., 1970, M.F.A. 1973) returns to the campus where Bull Tales, the prototype for the satirical strip, first leapt from his imagination onto the pages of the Yale Daily News.The celebration...