News & Updates

Eight Yale Faculty Members Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

May 2, 2022
Eight Yale faculty members (including YIBS affiliates Karen Seto, Richard Bribiescas, and YIBS External Advisory Board member, Dame Alison Richard) are among the 261...
A living foraminifera in culture, surrounded by a halo of symbiotic algae along its spines (in golden dots). Fluffy material in the background is an Artemia nauplius that the foraminifera is eating. (Daniel Gaskell)

Core Aspects of Climate Models are Sound — the Proof’s in the Plankton

March 21, 2022
Continents reconfigure, oceans shift, and ice sheets thicken and thaw, but for the past 95 million years Earth’s engine for distributing ocean heat has remained remarkably...
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Increased Tree Cover in Savannas Provides Limited Benefit in Climate Fight

March 17, 2022
One proposed strategy in the fight against climate change is to increase tree cover in the world’s savannas, either through the planting of new trees or fire suppression, to...
Hora Rockshelter in Malawi, where recent excavations uncovered two of the individuals analyzed in a collaborative study of ancient DNA.

On the Move: Ancient DNA Illuminates Early Stone Age Social Networks

February 24, 2022
“A new analysis of ancient human DNA demonstrates that people moved and chose their reproductive partners along complex social networks that stretched across large swathes of...

YIBS Affiliated Faculty Honors

January 24, 2022
Faculty honors Congratulations to the following YIBS Affiliates on their recent achievements and awards honoring the contributions made to their respective fields of study!...
The Age of Mammals, a mural by Rudolph F. Zallinger. (© 2016 Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University)

Loss of Ancient Grazers Triggered a Global Rise in Fires

December 2, 2021
“From 50,000 years to 6,000 years ago, many of the world’s largest animals, including such iconic grassland grazers as the woolly mammoth, giant bison, and ancient horses,...
Oct. 22, 2021 Science Cover

Study Develops Technique for Creating Strong, ‘Moldable’ Wood Materials

November 10, 2021
“A new study published in Science details an innovative new process that breaks down the wood’s cell walls and allows the material to be reconstituted via a “water-shock”...

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