For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly ...

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 ...

Research has shown that young people who face adversity such as traumatic or stressful events during brain development are 40% more likely to develop anxiety disorders by adulthood. But most people ...

Biofilms, ubiquitous bacterial communities embedded in a slimy matrix, are the oldest form of multicellularity on earth; they are extremely resistant to antibiotics and stick tenaciously to most ...

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 ...

Breakthroughs in medicine start with research — and lead to better lives. Ask Dr. Kevan Herold of Yale School of Medicine. His team’s work led to approval of the first drug able to delay the onset of ...

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 ...

A Yale-led research team has uncovered how a naturally occurring biological mechanism is able to prevent sperm cells from interacting with an egg, preventing fertilization. The discovery, found in ...

In a painting, a young Black boy somersaults on a patch of green grass against a bright blue sky. A police cruiser passes behind him, its taillights visible at the right edge of the composition.

Yale College, the undergraduate school of Yale University, will increase its class size by 100 students per year beginning this fall with the entering Class of 2029, university leaders said Tuesday.

Yale’s capacity to conduct high-performance computing and artificial intelligence-related research continues to expand, thanks to a pair of recent moves aimed at advancing the university’s computing ...

The rise of China as a global power has cast a shadow over U.S. foreign policy. For nearly a decade, elected leaders from both major political parties have described China as a sinister threat to ...