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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...
June 30, 2020
Ulla’s project title was  “Mechanisms of Changes in the Tropical Pacific Mean State and Walker Circulation in Response to Global Warming: Satellite-Based Observations Versus...
June 22, 2020
The first dinosaur eggs had a soft shell, say paleontologists from Yale and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). The finding upends decades of conventional wisdom...
June 18, 2020
The Awards were originally founded  in 2013 and  administered by the New York  Academy of Sciences, to elevate the work and research of early-career scientists.  The Awards...
June 15, 2020
Clay is king for creating ancient fossils. In a new study, researchers confirmed that kaolinite, a mineral found in certain fine-grained rocks around the world, is a key...
Surface of the planet
May 27, 2020
Yale geophysicists reported that Earth’s ever-shifting, underground network of tectonic plates was firmly in place more than 4 billion years ago — at least a billion years...
May 4, 2020
Matteo Fabbri’s happy place is halfway up a steep hill of earth and rocks in the Sahara Desert. There, beneath the broiling Moroccan sun and tons of burnt-orange dirt, are...