Research and development

A new Yale-led study reveals a distinct connection between drought exposure and adverse human health among older adults.

Yale researchers are studying kidney and liver diseases to determine which genes are involved in the formation of cysts.

Improving consistency in the diagnosis of cervical pre-cancers: Roche CINtec Histology test receives FDA clearance

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Sculpting optical microstructures with slight changes in chemistry

The highly social (eusocial) corbiculate bees, comprising the honey bees, bumble bees, and stingless bees, are ubiquitous insect pollinators that fulfill critical roles in ecosystem services and human agriculture.

Monitoring the kinetics and conformational dynamics of single enzymes is crucial to better understand their biological functions because these motions and structural dynamics are usually unsynchronized among the molecules. 

The article investigates how financialization impedes climate change mitigation by examining its effects on the early history of one low-carbon industry, solar photovoltaics in the United States. 

In July 2011, the observation of a massive phytoplankton bloom underneath a sea ice–covered region of the Chukchi Sea shifted the scientific consensus that regions of the Arctic Ocean covered by sea ice were inhospitable to photosynthetic life.

“Hot coffee” is not a good thing for java enthusiasts when it refers to plants beset by the high-temperature stress that this century is likely to bring, research at Oregon State University suggests.

Ina, a young-looking caldera on the moon, could be proof of volcanic activity in the past 100 million years. Or it might not be so youthful after all.

A new study looks at how honey bees manage to stay clean while pollinating plants.

Using a new strategy that can rapidly generate customized RNA vaccines, MIT researchers have devised a new vaccine candidate for the Zika virus.

Researchers have mapped a protein that causes Zika to reproduce and spread. "Drugs to target the Zika virus will almost certainly involve this protein."