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...
Johnson, one of Yale’s four annual Wilbur Cross Medal recipients, is now Sant Director at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. He spoke to the News about...
Dr John Wettlaufer, A. M. Bateman Professor of Geophysics, Mathematics, and Physics at Yale University, research professor at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics,...
