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June 16, 2015
The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History has received a $4 million gift from Carbonite founder and executive chair David Friend ’69 to renovate the museum’s auditorium into...
June 15, 2015
Nuclear membranes protect genes — life’s most precious cargo — but little is known about why they function in different tissue types. For instance, nuclei in brain cells tend...
June 15, 2015
Yale researchers have proposed a new model to explain the drop in elastic stiffness in the middle of the Earth’s continental lithosphere.
June 10, 2015
Current drugs block the actions of only about a quarter of known disease-causing proteins, but Yale University researchers have developed a technology capable of not just...
June 10, 2015
As changing climate reshapes the geographic range of thousands of bird species in the coming decades, ecosystems across wide swaths of the planet may be compromised, a new...
June 3, 2015
Menachem Elimelech, the Roberto Goizueta Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the School of Engineering and Applied Science, has won a 2015 Eni Award for...
June 3, 2015
Andrew Goodman, an assistant professor of microbial pathogenesis, and Christina Woo, a recent Ph.D. graduate in chemistry, are among the winners of Burroughs Wellcome Fund...