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,…
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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…
Study Reveals What Drives Social Bond Between Offspring and Caregivers
What drives the social bond between offspring and caregivers in the first few days of life? A Yale-led team of researchers has found clues in…
Cancer Drug Stops Cancer Cells from Repairing Their DNA
According to researchers at Yale Cancer Center, a cancer drug thought to be of limited use possesses a superpower of sorts: It is able to…
Potential New Therapies For Untreatable Kidney Disease
The best hope for people with an inherited form of kidney disease that causes kidney failure is dialysis or a kidney transplant. But a study…
Many More Amphibian Species at Risk of Extinction
Frogs already knew it wasn’t easy being green, but the going just got a lot tougher for the 1,012 additional species of amphibians who have…
Researchers Identify Key Molecule That Guides Sperm
Sperm start their sprint to the ovum when they detect changes in the environment through a series of calcium channels arranged like racing stripes on…
95 Million-Year-Old Species Has Scientists Rethinking The Definition Of A Crab
The crab family just got a bunch of new cousins, including a 95-million-year-old species that will force scientists to rethink the definition of a crab…
Physicists Observe Quantum Behavior in Liquid Vibrations
For the first time, Yale physicists have directly observed quantum behavior in the vibrations of a liquid body. A great deal of ongoing research is…
Scientists Restore Partial Brain Function Hours After Death
Circulation and cellular activity were restored in a pig’s brain four hours after its death, a finding that challenges long-held assumptions about the timing and…
New Shape-Changing Robots Take on Changing Terrains
Robots can change directions, speeds and even their colors. But what about changing their shapes? With help from a sculptor’s intuition, Yale researchers are on…
Scientists Reveal Another Way HIV Hides From Vaccines
A Yale-led team has discovered yet another molecular trick HIV uses to survive immune system attacks, a finding that may influence efforts to develop an…
Researchers Discover Fossils of Cthulhu-Like Creature
Cthulhu is calling from the ancient depths — and this time, researchers are only too happy to speak its name. Researchers at Yale, Oxford, the…