It Really Was the Asteroid That Ended the Dinosaurs – Here’s How It Went Down
Fossil remains of tiny calcareous algae not only provide information about the end of the dinosaurs, but also show how the oceans recovered after the…
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Aerosols Have a Major Impact on Our Climate, but Greenhouse Gases Get Most Attention
Greenhouse gases may get more attention, but aerosols — from car exhaust to volcanic eruptions — also have a major impact on the Earth’s climate….
Picoscience and New Materials That Can Mimic Neurons, Compute With Magnets
The revolutionary tech discoveries of the next few decades, the ones that will change daily life, may come from new materials so small they make…
More Interstellar Objects – Strange, Icy Visitors From Other Planets – Are Coming
Gregory Laughlin and Malena Rice weren’t exactly surprised a few weeks ago when they learned that a second interstellar object had made its way into…
Scientists Trace Supermassive Black Hole and Galaxy Co-Evolution in Romulus Simulation [Video]
Some relationships are written in the stars. That’s definitely the case for supermassive black holes and their host galaxies, according to a new study from…
Warning: High-Fat Diets Affect Your Brain, Not Just Your Body
Much research has pointed to how an unhealthy diet correlates to obesity, but has not explored how diet can bring about neurological changes in the…
Medications Can Help As Opioid Treatment for Teens
Teens who misuse prescription or illicit opioids might benefit from opioid treatment medications, according to a new study led by a Yale researcher. An estimated…
Intergalactic ‘Pancakes’ Shatter Into a Cosmic Fog [Video]
To understand the most ordinary matter in the universe — and the extraordinary things that happen to it — a Yale-led team of astronomers took…
Study Shows Heart Cells’ Environment a Major Factor in Heart Disease
When it comes to heart disease, the health of the scaffold where cardiac cells grow may be a much bigger factor than previously believed. Stuart…
Scientists Crack the Code of a Rare, Inherited Anemia
Red blood cells carry oxygen throughout the human body, an essential function for survival. Anemia results when someone has fewer red blood cells than normal….
Chemists Edge Closer to Using Ribosome to Create Designer Polymers
A team of Yale chemists is one step closer to using the ribosome — the cell’s protein-making factory — to create designer polymers, including stronger…
Three Distinct Brain Circuits Lead Us to Make Bad and Good Decisions
A prevailing theory in neuroscience holds that people make decisions based on integrated global calculations that occur within the frontal cortex of the brain. However,…
Researchers Discover Molecular Key to How Cancer Spreads
Yale researchers have discovered how metastasis, the spread of cancer cells throughout the body, is triggered on the molecular level, and have developed a tool…
Biologists Reveal Previously Unrecognized Immune Cell Behavior
What makes healthy cells change and become dysfunctional to the point of causing disease? In addition to a disruption in genes that regulate cells, there…
Physicists Develop New Tool for Identifying Phases of Matter
Even if you’re not a physicist, phases of matter … really matter. They’re the distinct physical forms taken on by all the “stuff” in the…
New Class of ‘Cold Quasars’ Was Unknown Until Now
Astronomers have discovered a new class of “cold quasars” that could change our perception of how galaxies mature. The discovery was announced June 12 at…
Physicists Predict How to Catch and Save Schrödinger’s Cat
Yale researchers have figured out how to catch and save Schrödinger’s famous cat, the symbol of quantum superposition and unpredictability, by anticipating its jumps and…
Deinonychus Changed Our Understanding of Dinosaurs
Academics used to tease paleontologists, saying that while dinosaurs appeal to children, they won’t answer the important evolutionary questions. Yale’s John Ostrom (1928-2005) proved them…