A Yale-led study shows that the senses stimulate a region of the brain that controls consciousness — a finding that might inform treatment for disorders related to attention, arousal, and more.

Most vaccines — and boosters — are injected directly into muscle tissue, usually in the upper arm, to kickstart the body’s immune system in the fight against disease. But for respiratory diseases like ...

It was at a dinner for first-year Branford College students last year that Juan Carlos Gonzalez, now a Yale sophomore, first encountered a particularly accomplished fellow college resident. “I thought ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is automating tasks that once were the sole domain of human beings. AI-powered machines are diagnosing heart conditions, predicting the weather, and even ...

In the fight against antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) superbugs, an important weapon may just be hiding in some polluted stream, in some remote village that lacks adequate sewage infrastructure, or in a ...

Violence and trauma leave inheritable markers on a person’s genome that persist over multiple generations, according to a new study coauthored by Yale anthropologist Catherine Panter-Brick. The ...

COVID-19 vaccines have been instrumental in reducing the impact of the pandemic, preventing severe illness and death, and they appear to protect against long COVID. However, some individuals have ...

Yale scientists have taken a critical next step in creating a scalable process to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air and “recirculate” it as a renewable fuel. In a new study published in the ...

In the late-1970s, a small freshwater fish known as the snail darter made history when its newly acquired status as an endangered species helped to temporarily block construction of the Tellico Dam in ...

Sam Raskin has wrapped his head around a math problem so complex it took five academic studies — and more than 900 pages — to solve. The results are a sweeping, game-changing math proof that was ...

Yale’s endowment earned a 5.7% investment return, net of fees, for the year ending June 30, 2024, representing $2.3 billion in investment gains. After providing distributions of $2.0 billion to the ...

A long-term survey of small, “satellite” galaxies that orbit larger galaxies across the universe offers new insights into our own galaxy, the Milky Way. Since 2012, the Satellites Around Galactic ...