The origins of insects, spiders, scorpions, crustaceans, and their relatives date to more than 500 million years ago, a period termed the Cambrian Explosion, when most of the modern groups of arthropods first occurred. A new study shows that rates of arthropod evolution during this period were 4 to 5 times faster than they are today.
Novel technique uses computers, rather than scalpels, to identify specific genes related to kidney disease.
A team consisting of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is working to develop a
Adam Marcus, Daniel Spielman, and Nikhil Srivastava have proven the 54-year-old mathematical problem known as the Kadison-Singer Conjecture, which holds important consequences for the field of interlacing families as well as the mathematical foundations of quantum physics.
In a collaborative study, researchers from several Yale departments have developed small synthetic molecules that limit damage to the heart from ischemia, which could potentially be developed into drugs to be used in a surgical or therapeutic setting.
The brain is one of the least well understood of the organs in our bodies, and historically we have only had indirect methods available to measure neural activity. However, professors at the Yale School of Medicine have recently designed a new neural probe which directly measures and images brain activity using light.
The recent discovery of lunar magmatic water — water originating deep within the Moon’s interior — sheds new light on the formation and composition of the Moon. More impressively, the finding is the first of its kind made completely by remote detection.
Dr. Claire Paris of the University of Miami has discovered that fish larvae detect odor signals from their home reef and use these signals to help pilot their way back home.
An accomplished microbiologist, advocator of science education reform and proponent of increasing diversity in STEM fields, Yale’s Jo Handelsman was nominated to serve as the Associate Director of Science at the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy this summer.
A new element may be added to the official periodic table very soon. A team from Sweden’s Lund University has performed an experiment to confirm the existence of element 115.