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July 10, 2013
Editor’s note: Mark Pagani is a professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale and director of the Yale Climate and Energy Institute. (CNN) – Most...
July 10, 2013
Researchers have found a way to drive water droplets along a flat surface without applying heat, chemicals, electricity, or other forces: All that’s required is varying the...
June 21, 2013
The research of Assistant Professor William Boos is profiled in this week’s issue of the journal Science.  As stated in the article, “A new spate of research is...
June 10, 2013
The turtle has been in no rush to give up the secret of its shell — but after two centuries of close study, scientists are filling in the story of a structure unique in the...
May 30, 2013
Geology & Geophysics graduate student, Daniel Field, was awarded the William S. Hoar Award for the best student talk at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of...
May 22, 2013
About 55.5 million years ago, geologically rapid emission of a large volume of greenhouse gases at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary (PETM) led to global warming of about 5oC,...
May 20, 2013
Andong He saw a phenomenon at work in his breakfast bowl that he couldn’t explain. It prompted this question: How does cereal shape influence the way cereals floating in the...