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May 3, 2016
Yale scientist and alumnus David Evans has been named as the next head of Berkeley College, President Peter Salovey and Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway have announced....
April 25, 2016
A new study suggests that volcanic eruptions did not lead to the extinction of the dinosaurs, and also demonstrates that Earth’s oceans are capable of absorbing large amounts...
April 14, 2016
The computer models that predict climate change may be overestimating the cooling power of clouds, new research suggests. If the findings are borne out by further research,...
April 7, 2016
Graduate student Neala Creasy has been awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation, and graduate student Sarah Arveson was given an Honorable...
April 5, 2016
Scientists have discovered an ancient animal that carried its young in capsules tethered to the parent’s body like tiny, swirling kites. They’re naming it after “The Kite...
March 22, 2016
The Tully Monster, an oddly configured sea creature with teeth at the end of a narrow, trunk-like extension of its head and eyes that perch on either side of a long, rigid...
March 21, 2016
A significant amount of the climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions in the past century has been hidden from us, scientists say — by another type of pollution that...