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June 22, 2020
The first dinosaur eggs had a soft shell, say paleontologists from Yale and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). The finding upends decades of conventional wisdom...
June 18, 2020
The Awards were originally founded  in 2013 and  administered by the New York  Academy of Sciences, to elevate the work and research of early-career scientists.  The Awards...
June 15, 2020
Clay is king for creating ancient fossils. In a new study, researchers confirmed that kaolinite, a mineral found in certain fine-grained rocks around the world, is a key...
Surface of the planet
May 27, 2020
Yale geophysicists reported that Earth’s ever-shifting, underground network of tectonic plates was firmly in place more than 4 billion years ago — at least a billion years...
May 4, 2020
Matteo Fabbri’s happy place is halfway up a steep hill of earth and rocks in the Sahara Desert. There, beneath the broiling Moroccan sun and tons of burnt-orange dirt, are...
April 23, 2020
Founded in 1780  the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of...
Caleb Gordon
April 13, 2020
Caleb Gordon has been awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. He is one of eight Paleontology students in the United States to receive...