Dean Indy Burke’s description of a two-week trip with the Yale Alumni Academy in Chile, including remarkable opportunities to learn more about Chile’s climate and environment, observe the effects of climate change firsthand , and engage with a wonderful group of alumni and oh yes, great and plentiful food and wine!
A Weizmann Institute study shows that some bacteria that hitch a long-distance ride on desert dust particles may touch down alive and kicking
A preventive procedure, performed on healthy mice, improved their recovery from later-occurring cardiac injury, reshaping our knowledge of regeneration in hearts – and possibly other organs
Sometimes anticancer antibodies press on the gas and the brakes at the same time. New research might help them accelerate better
Wild land mammals weigh less than 10 percent of the combined weight of humans and are outweighed by cattle and other domesticated mammals by a factor of 30
A powerful LED can efficiently disinfect surfaces, while remaining safe for humans
The normal, symmetric formation of the vertebrate eyes is coordinated by a molecular sensor that responds to mechanical force
COVID is not yet under control. Despite a bevy of vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, and antivirals, the virus continues to mutate and elude us.
Ants are known as hard workers, tirelessly attending to their assigned tasks—foraging for food, nurturing larvae, digging tunnels, tidying the nest.
One of the most terrifying aspects of the COVID pandemic has been its unpredictably severe impact on some children.
Fruit fly study links nutrient-sensing pathway to an unexpected amino acid
A new and unexpected cell death mechanism found in fly guts opens up big questions about how the digestive system really maintains its balance.
A study published Jan. 9 in the journal Nature Aging shows that aged bone marrow promotes the expansion of arterial smooth muscle cells, which exacerbates the buildup of fatty deposits in artery walls.
Researchers have developed a system that could lead to breakthroughs in local area networks and photonics by directing light and electromagnetic waves for signal processing without unwanted signal reflections, according to a new study.
RIKEN scientists in Japan have created a “self-healing” polymer made from a common chemical that is aimed, not only at minimizing the environmental impacts of commercial polymers, but also improving durability and cost efficiency.
With the world experiencing an increase in drought since the beginning of the millennium, Japan-based RIKEN has created a cost-effective soil treatment intended on increasing the survival rate of crops by 10 times.
Scientists have revealed and elaborated on the global biomass and population of insects and other arthropods in a research article published by Science Advances in early 2023.
The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) recently agreed to recognize viriforms as a new category of virus-derived genetic elements, viroids and satellite nucleic acids, according to an MDPI article published Feb. 3.
Scientists have developed a new mouse model with a high clonal barcode diversity for joint lineage, transcriptomic, and epigenomic profiling in single cells, according to a report published by bioRxiv on Jan. 31.
A new study published in the journal Nature Communications shows that synthetic production of certain virus vectors could be the key to improving gene therapy.