The rise of marine animals hundreds of millions of years ago had far-reaching implications for the eventual diversity of life on Earth. It also permanently changed the way...
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation congratulates the winners of the 2023 Sloan Research Fellowships. These 125 early-career scholars represent the most promising scientific...
Yale researchers have a new theory to explain some of the geochemistry of “hotspots” — magma plumes from deep in the Earth that erupt at the surface.
Hawaii and Iceland are...
In the 1990s, Ellen Thomas and James Zachos uncovered an anomalous episode in the planet’s history in which massive quantities of CO2 and methane were released into the...
Editor’s Note: This post highlights data from Webb science in progress, which has not yet been through the peer-review process.
On the morning of Saturday, Nov. 5, an...
Yale researchers have identified the oldest-known, definitive members of the lizard crown group that includes all living lizards and their closest extinct relatives.
The two...
The Romer Prize is the Society’s top award for young researchers and is awarded for research achievements by a recent Ph.D. graduate. Historically, it has gone to...
