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An artist’s illustration of a metal asteroid. (Credit: ASU/Peter Rubin)
August 2, 2023
A new Yale study proposes a way that collisions between asteroids might lead to the formation of metal asteroids able to generate and record magnetism.Yale researchers may...
Venus
July 24, 2023
A new study suggests that higher-energy bolide impacts created a superheated core and extended volcanism on Venus — leading to its younger surface appearance. Researchers at...
Dickinsonia, an early animal from the Rawnsley Quartzite Formation in South Australia, is about 550 million years old. (Courtesy of L. Tarhan)
July 5, 2023
Pinpointing when exactly animals first appeared on Earth is a bit like finding a needle in a very old, planet-sized haystack — but a new study has narrowed the search a bit...
Metamorphosed banded iron formation from the Hamersley Group of Western Australia. The rock is approximately 2.5 billion years old. Dark bands are iron oxides (hematite, magnetite), reddish bands are chert with iron oxide inclusions (jasper), and gold bands are amphibole and quartz. Specimen collected by Cin-Ty Lee. (Photo by Linda Welzenbach-Fries/Rice University)
June 12, 2023
Insights & Outcomes welcomes the start of summer break with an honor for a Yale applied mathematician, a protein that multitasks, new insights into some colorful...
May 31, 2023
Yale EPS hosted an outreach event on May 30 for middle school students and their parents, organized and presented by EPS outreach and science communication specialist...
May 30, 2023
The Greer Prize honors outstanding research conducted by ladder faculty members in the social or natural sciences, and recognizes work by faculty who are not yet tenured at...
The Center for Lunar Origin and Evolution will provide scientific advances to support human exploration of the Moon, particularly its oldest and largest impact basin, which extends from near the south pole to cover much of the far side's southern hemisphere. (Courtesy of NASA/Goddard)
May 22, 2023
Earth and planetary scientist Jun Korenaga will be part of the science team for CLOE, a NASA-funded project looking at the moon’s origin. Over the next five years, Yale...