Make way for MOTHRA, the world’s largest all-lens telescope, which intends to detect some of the faintest light in the universe. Co-created by Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and University of ...

For decades, language barriers have hindered researchers’ ability to assess child-caregiver relationships in refugee populations — an important component in designing and implementing interventions ...

When Ellen Foxman began her postdoctoral work at Yale School of Medicine (YSM) in 2010, she was interested in what respiratory viruses could reveal about the human immune system. Having a young son ...

About 9,500 years ago, a community of hunter-gatherers in central Africa cremated a small woman on an open pyre at the base of Mount Hora, a prominent natural landmark in what is now northern Malawi, ...

Stress influences what we learn and remember. The hormone cortisol, which is released during stressful situations, can make emotional memories in particular stronger. But how exactly does cortisol ...

The tenant of a newly built residence on a woodsy ridgeline in New Haven’s Fair Haven Heights neighborhood will sleep in the treetops. A picture window in the bedroom offers views, through ...

In 2016 psychiatrist Benjamin Kelmendi was treating two patients with severe, treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) at a Connecticut mental health center when the patients abruptly ...

Small, colorless, and blind, amblyopsid cavefishes inhabit subterranean waters throughout the eastern United States. In a new study, Yale researchers reveal insights into just how these distinctive ...

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 ...

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 ...

Future generations of Yale quantum scientists, engineers, and physicists likely won’t know the details of the monumental effort underway today to reshape the upper slope of Science Hill on campus. But ...