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August 19, 2015
Scientists are getting an unprecedented look at a geological process in South America that mirrors the formation of America’s Rocky Mountains. Writing in the journal Nature,...
August 19, 2015
For 15 days in August, a group of 23 G&G students and faculty traversed the European Alps and Apennines from Germany, through Switzerland, and into Italy. Led by...
June 15, 2015
Yale researchers have proposed a new model to explain the drop in elastic stiffness in the middle of the Earth’s continental lithosphere. Lithosphere is the stiff layer of...
May 26, 2015
The ancestral snakes in the grass actually lived in the forest, according to the most detailed look yet at the iconic reptiles. A comprehensive analysis by Yale University...
May 21, 2015
NASA received a total of 712 applications in 2015 to the NASA Earth and Space Science (NESSF) Fellowship Program announced in November 2014 among Earth Science Research,...
May 21, 2015
Researchers have discovered the 425-million-year-old fossil remains of a new species of parasite, still attached to the host animal it invaded long ago. The new species is a...
May 13, 2015
Using the fossil record as a guide, a research team led by Yale paleontologist and developmental biologist Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar and Harvard developmental biologist Arhat...