Caleb Gordon has been awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. He is one of eight Paleontology students in the United States to receive...
Yale geologists have identified the deepest pieces of Earth’s crust ever found in the United States or Canada — in the rolling hills of northern Connecticut.
Tiny bits of...
A Yale-led study turns up the heat on a key question about dinosaurs’ body temperature: Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded?
According to a new technique that analyzes...
Meng Guo and Emily Stuart have both received an Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA) at the 2019 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco. Meng’s presentation was titled “...
Yale University said Feb. 10 that its Department of Geology & Geophysics will change its name to the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences to better reflect the...
Seismic tomography shows evidence of intense deformation of subducted slabs in the mantle transition zone (~410-660 km depth). Evidence of deformation is particularly clear...
Volcanic activity did not play a direct role in the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs, according to an international, Yale-led team of researchers. It was all...
