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March 23, 2017
Scientists at Yale and in England are honoring renowned naturalist and TV documentarian Sir David Attenborough with his own proto-shrimp. In this case, it is a 430-million-...
March 13, 2017
Scientists have found the seasonal “fingerprints” of Arctic sea ice, El Nino, and other climate phenomena in a new study that probes the global interactions between weather...
February 21, 2017
Pincelli Hull, assistant professor of geology and geophysics, is among 126 U.S. and Canadian researchers who were awarded a $60,000 Sloan Research Fellowship to advance their...
February 6, 2017
Reach back far enough in the family tree of a snail or a clam and you’ll find a spiny little slug with tiny teeth, wearing a helmet. Scientists have unearthed the 480-million...
February 3, 2017
For more than two decades, the Yale Center for Earth Observation has served as a nexus for University-wide research efforts in areas as varied as geology, epidemiology and...
February 2, 2017
Devon will join a group of roughly 15 archaeologists, anthropologists, astronomers, conservationists, ecologists, geographers, geologists, marine scientists, adventurers,...
January 31, 2017
NASA recently announced a pair of new space missions to explore questions about the earliest stages of our solar system. One of the missions, Psyche, will send an unmanned...