Team finds last dino before extinction
YALE (US) — The youngest dinosaur preserved in the fossil record before the catastrophic meteor impact 65 million years ago has been discovered in Montana. Continue…
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 16:36 - 3 Comments
Top Stories - May 27, 2011 9:37 - 0 Comments
Giants were predators of ancient deep
YALE (US) — Fossils discovered in Morocco show that a group of prehistoric sea predators grew more than a foot longer and lived for 30 million years longer than previously thought. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 31, 2011 15:21 - 0 Comments
Nanowires make fuel cells go and go
YALE (US) — Nanowires coated in an innovative alloy boost the long-term performance of fuel cells by 2.4 times and could be used in laptops, cell phones, and remote sensors. (more…)
Science & Technology - Feb 18, 2011 11:51 - 0 Comments
Anti-lasers: Latest zap! technology
YALE (US) — Scientists have invented the world’s first anti-laser, in which incoming beams of light interfere with one another in such a way as to perfectly cancel each other out. (more…)
Science & Technology - Feb 1, 2011 15:12 - 0 Comments
Move over Triceratops
YALE (US) — The discovery of a new dinosaur extends the family tree of the well-known Triceratops, long considered the king of the horned dinosaurs. (more…)
Top Stories - Jan 5, 2011 17:36 - 0 Comments
Prehistoric bird with nunchuck skills
YALE (US) — A flightless prehistoric bird used its own wings like nunchucks in combat with foes, researchers have discovered. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 16, 2010 12:24 - 0 Comments
Front row seat in hunt for exoplanets
YALE (US) — A new online science project will allow ordinary citizens to help professional astronomers in their search for Earth-like planets. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 6, 2010 14:05 - 1 Comment
Red dwarfs increase star total threefold
YALE (US) — Small, dim stars known as red dwarfs are much more prolific than previously thought—so much so that the total number of stars in the universe is likely three times bigger than realized. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 3, 2010 16:20 - 0 Comments
Dead quasar ‘illuminates’ black holes
YALE (US) — An object discovered two years ago by an amateur astronomer is revealing surprising clues about the life cycle of black holes. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 19, 2010 10:25 - 3 Comments
T. rex’s favorite meal? Other T. rex
YALE (US) — It turns out that the undisputed king of the dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex, didn’t just eat other dinosaurs. They also ate each other. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Oct 8, 2010 14:44 - 0 Comments
Faking out bacteria with molecules
YALE (US) — Scientists have engineered the cell wall of the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, tricking it into incorporating foreign small molecules and embedding them within the cell wall. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Sep 24, 2010 14:37 - 1 Comment
How to recreate deep-Earth extremes
YALE / UC BERKELEY (US)—Scientists have new clues to why certain seismic waves travel more quickly through a thin layer of Earth’s interior known as the core-mantle boundary. (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 22, 2010 10:00 - 0 Comments
Lasers control ‘Goldilocks’ molecules
YALE (US) — Using lasers, physicists have been successful in cooling molecules down to temperatures near what’s known as absolute zero, about -460 degrees Fahrenheit. (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 20, 2010 8:43 - 0 Comments
Supercomputers with a driver’s license?
YALE (US)— Researchers have developed a supercomputer based on the human visual system, mimicking its neural network to quickly interpret the world around it. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Sep 17, 2010 11:30 - 0 Comments
Glaciers act as mountains’ armor
YALE (US)— Glaciers in the southern reaches of the Patagonian Andes have acted as a kind of protective shield throughout the mountain range’s 25-million-year history. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jul 8, 2010 15:50 - 1 Comment
New ‘mojo’ dinosaur named for ‘frill’
YALE (US)—When Nicholas Longrich discovered a new dinosaur species with a heart-shaped frill on its head, he wanted to come up with a name just as flamboyant as the dinosaur’s appearance. Over a few beers with fellow paleontologists one night, he blurted out the first thing that came to mind: Mojoceratops. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jun 25, 2010 15:03 - 3 Comments
3-D look inside a whole mouse
YALE (US)—Engineers have for the first time created 3-D models of whole intact mouse organs, a feat they accomplished using fluorescence microscopy. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jun 18, 2010 12:46 - 0 Comments
Ancient bite marks reveal taste for bones
YALE (US)—Prehistoric mammals likely gnawed on bare bones for minerals, rather than meat, according to paleontologists who have discovered the oldest mammalian tooth marks yet on bones of ancient animals, including several large dinosaurs. (more…)
Earth & Environment - May 13, 2010 12:13 - 0 Comments
Morocco’s swimming in ancient sea creatures
YALE (US)—Paleontologists have discovered a rich array of exceptionally preserved fossils of marine animals that lived between 480 million and 472 million years ago. The specimens are the oldest yet discovered soft-bodied fossils from the Ordovician, which was marked by intense biodiversification. (more…)
