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October 5, 2020
Temperatures at Earth’s highest latitudes were nearly as warm after Antarctica’s polar ice sheets developed as they were prior to glaciation, according to a new study led by...
October 2, 2020
The latest cover of National Geographic magazine features a Yale discovery that stretches back … oh, about 115 million years.  Deinonychus, a Cretaceous Period raptor that...
September 30, 2020
The Ronald Greeley Early Career Award in Planetary Sciences is presented annually and recognizes significant early-career contributions to planetary science from honorees...
September 30, 2020
The Study of the Earth’s Deep Interior (SEDI) Section Award for Graduate Research is presented annually to one or two graduate student honorees. Students are honored for...
September 28, 2020
This month, Insights & Outcomes dives into some new dopamine research, looks at how to build a better flu vaccine, and celebrates Yale’s inclusion on a committee advising...
August 28, 2020
Mary-Louise Timmermans, newly named as the Damon Wells Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, studies the dynamics and variability of...
July 13, 2020
Step aside, skeletons — a new world of biochemical “signatures” found in all kinds of ancient fossils is revealing itself to paleontologists, providing a new avenue for...