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August 29, 2023
Ruth is a marine and environmental biogeochemist, geomicrobiologist, and planetary scientist who has held a faculty appointment at Yale since 2000. In addition to her primary...
August 14, 2023
The title of Olivia’s proposal was:  Reimagining Greenhouse Cretaceous Climate Using Carbonate Clumped Isotope Paleothermometry within Foraminifera. Congratulations...
August 14, 2023
The title of Paul’s proposal was: Interactions between the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) and the Arctic in a warming climate: from satellite-based...
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...