This month's "Insights & Outcomes" celebrates some tiny scientific wonders, from subatomic particles and hidden brain networks to creatures that burrowed into the seafloor millions of years ago.
And we tell you about a pair of paleontologists honored for their innovative research and how Yale scientists are advancing a carbon dioxide removal process called enhanced weathering.
As always, you can find more science and medicine research news on Yale News' Science & Technology and Health & Medicine pages.
Following the tracks after a mass extinction
Earth has had multiple mass extinction events over its long history, but even among these the End-Permian mass extinction 252 million years ago stands apart. It was both severe - up to 90% of species perished - and long lasting.
A new Yale study in the journal Geobiology looks at one possible factor in the Permian Extinction's sluggish, million-year period of recovery.
Senior author Lidya Tarhan, an assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), and first author Brian Beaty, a former Ph.D. student in the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) who is now at Stanford, said it took time for "bioturbation" to get its grooves back.
