Massive Die-Off Discovered by Accident: A Shark Mystery Millions of Years in the Making
The biggest shark attack in history did not involve humans. A new study by Earth scientists from Yale and the College of the Atlantic has…
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Yale Researchers Create Global Map of Undiscovered Life
Less than a decade after unveiling the “Map of Life,” a global database that marks the distribution of known species across the planet, Yale researchers…
Ingenious Experiments Show Monkeys Consciously Experience the Visual World the Same Way People Do
When humans look out at a visual landscape like a sunset or a beautiful overlook, we experience something — we have a conscious awareness of…
Turning Wood Into Recyclable, Biodegradable Plastic
Plastics are one of the world’s largest polluters, taking hundreds of years to degrade in nature. A research team, led by YSE professor Yuan Yao…
Lightning Strikes – Perhaps 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 of Them – May Have Sparked Life on Earth
Lightning strikes — perhaps a quintillion of them, occurring over a billion years — may have provided sparks of life for the early Earth. A…
Brain Tissue Analysis Yields Clues to Causes of PTSD
A post-mortem analysis of brain tissue from people who had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may help explain enduring mysteries about the disorder,…
Researchers Create a Single-Molecule Switch – Key to Incredibly Tiny Molecular Computers
A team of researchers has demonstrated for the first time a single-molecule electret — a device that could be one of the keys to molecular…
Massive Analysis Reveals New COVID-19 Related Genes – Helpful and Harmful
Researchers at Yale University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard screened hundreds of millions of cells exposed to the COVID-19 and MERS viruses…
Astrophysicists Detect Difference Between How Dark Matter Behaves in Theory and How It Appears to Act in Reality
The universe’s funhouse mirrors are revealing a difference between how dark matter behaves in theory and how it appears to act in reality. Dark matter…
Common Cold Can Prevent the Flu Virus From Infecting Airways
As the flu season approaches, a strained public health system may have a surprising ally — the common cold virus. Rhinovirus, the most frequent cause…
Optical Illusions Have Long Mystified Neuroscientists – Now Explained in a Fly’s Eyes
Why people perceive motion in some static images has mystified not only those who view these optical illusions but neuroscientists who have tried to explain…
Yale Chemists Make New Nitrogen Products Out of Thin Air
A nifty move with nitrogen has brought the world one step closer to creating a range of useful products — from dyes to pharmaceuticals —…
Quantum Researchers Create an Error-Correcting Cat – New Device Combines Schrödinger’s Cat With Quantum Error Correction
Yale physicists have developed an error-correcting cat — a new device that combines the Schrödinger’s cat concept of superposition (a physical system existing in two…
Anatomy of an Acne Treatment: What Makes First New Antibiotic Approved to Treat Acne in More Than 40 Years Effective
Sarecycline, a drug approved for use in the United States in 2018, is the first new antibiotic approved to treat acne in more than 40…
Yale to Lead Trial of Drug for Treating COVID-19 – Found Most Effective in Combatting SARS-CoV-2 Out of 13,000 Existing Drugs
Yale School of Medicine and the biopharmaceutical firm AI Therapeutics have launched a multi-institutional clinical trial of a drug for treating COVID-19. Known as LAM-002A…
Yale Scientists Solve a Thorny Problem: Where Do Thorns Come From?
“Why do plants have thorns?” is an easy question: The thorns help protect against hungry animals that like to munch on the plants. “Where do…
Scientists Baffled by Strange Form of Childhood OCD – Yale Researchers Propose Explanation: PANDAS
Yale scientists may have found a cause for the sudden onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in some children, they report. Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders, or…
Supermassive Black Holes Feast Under Pressure
A new, Yale-led study shows that some supermassive black holes actually thrive under pressure. It has been known for some time that when distant galaxies…