Ivory-billed Woodpecker from Audubon Plate 66 After reviewing new sound recordings from the White River of Arkansas, an independent team of ornithologists has confirmed the existence of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Working from...
A team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., Yale University in New Haven, Conn., and Gemini Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, report the discovery of a new planet in the outer solar system. Officially designated...
New Haven, Conn. — In the courtship dance of male Club-winged Manakins, Machaeropterus deliciosus, rubbing and vibrating specialized wing feathers together creates a courting melody to attract their mates, according to a report in Science.Since Darwin...
Almost 150 years after Charles Darwin proposed a mechanism for biological evolution, previously unrecognized diversity has been discovered among the giant tortoises of the Galápagos, Geochelone nigra, whose distinctiveness was an inspiration in...
New Haven, CT - The environmental impact of what we buy and use is increasingly drawing the attention of business, governments, and consumers. The connection between consumption and environmental impact is analyzed in new and important ways in a special...
A lively group of New Haven teenagers is learning how to do serious science at Yale this month, through the SCHOLAR (Science Collaborative Hands-On Learning and Research) program, an intensive residential summer academy.SCHOLAR exposes 40–50 students from...
A celebration to mark the renaming of the Yale (Bush) Center in Child Development and Social Policy to the The Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy, will take place Monday, July 25 from 11 a.m. to noon in the Donald J. Cohen...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine and seven other national institutions are recruiting patients to participate in the Kronos Early Estrogen Prevention Study (KEEPS) to look at the effects of estrogen on heart disease prevention. The study will...
Dr. John H. Ostrom, one of the most influential figures in 20th century dinosaur paleontology, died peacefully at The Sarah Pierce Assisted Living Community in Litchfield, CT, on July 16, 2005 of complications of Alzheimers Disease. Ostrom was professor...
July 14, 2005 — National experts in the fields of child development and education will share strategies for responding to the needs of the nation’s children and families at the 17th annual School of the 21st Century (21C) National Conference at Yale,...
