On Halloween Eve 2012, ferocious Storm Sandy uprooted an historic oak tree on the New Haven Green and exposed skeletal reminders of New Haven’s past. A passer-by found bone fragments lodged in roots of the oak tree, which was planted in 1909 to celebrate...
Richard Lifton, Sterling Professor of Genetics and chair of the Department of Genetics, has received a $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, created by top Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.Richard LiftonLifton was one of eight scientists honored Dec...
In addition to hearing from experts about their research, youths who attend the Yale’s Science Saturdays programs have an opportunity to enjoy some hands-on science.For example, in addition to a talk by Yale chemist Nilay Hazari on “Making Valuable...
Yale scientist David Evans will look both billions of years into the past and ahead into the near future in the next In the Company of Scholars talk on Tuesday, Feb. 11.
David Evans at work.
Titled “Past and Future Movements of Continents Across Earth's...