Now we know how fireflies get their glow going.Researchers at Yale, Connecticut College, and the University of Buffalo have determined the chemical processes at play when a firefly converts the chemicals in its body into a backyard light show. It’s a...
A Yale University astronomer has helped untangle the cosmic knots of stars at the center of giant, elliptical galaxies.Two studies, one led by Yale’s Grant Tremblay and other led by Michigan State University researcher Megan Donahue, are providing new...
Scientists are getting an unprecedented look at a geological process in South America that mirrors the formation of America’s Rocky Mountains.The revised geometry of the downgoing Nazca plate beneath the Andean mountains in southern Peru and northern...
Nearly one in four patients with chronic hepatitis C (HCV) are denied initial approval for a drug therapy that treats the most common strain of the infection, according to a Yale School of Medicine study.The finding, published Aug. 27 in PLOS ONE,...