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Elizabeth Vrba
March 18, 2025
Elisabeth Vrba’s meticulous studies of fossil and living mammals challenged the conventional view of evolution. Instead of a process of slow, continuous adaptive changes...
March 13, 2025
The National Academy of Sciences announces the selection of eighty-seven of the nation’s brightest young scientists from industry, academia, and government to take part in...
Matthew Eisaman
March 6, 2025
Matthew Eisaman, an associate professor in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences in Yale’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences (FAS) and a leading figure in harnessing...
February 24, 2025
On Wilbourne Farm in Virginia, a carbon-removal experiment is underway. First a tractor sprays nearly 20 tonnes of gray crushed basalt over one field. Then the farmer makes...
February 10, 2025
Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test — a comprehensive model for estimating the origins of Earth’s habitability, based in part...
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January 31, 2025
The scene that unfolded on a cold November day in central Illinois might seem commonplace, but it was part of a bold plan to pull billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the...
The 25,000 tons of steel slag on the Delta Raceway property will continue to solidify as it absorbs more carbon.
January 31, 2025
“When you create steel, you can kind of think of it as like a massive soup,” said Yale University’s Ella Milliken, who studies carbon storage. “The steel slag is essentially...