As Dame Jacinda Ardern, the former prime minister of New Zealand, guided her country through the COVID-19 pandemic and other crises, she grappled with a lingering sense of uncertainty. Like so many ...

Humans perceive and navigate the world around us with the help of our five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. And while scientists have long known that these different senses activate ...

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 ...

Maurie McInnis was installed Sunday as Yale University’s 24th president — a role she officially assumed in July — during a tradition-filled ceremony in Woolsey Hall. It was the first inauguration of 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 ...

Yale political scientist and vice provost Steven Wilkinson will be the next dean of the university’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), President Maurie McInnis and Provost Scott Strobel announced on ...

In his 37-volume “Natural History,” first published in 77 C.E., the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder explored the minutiae of everyday life. The encyclopedic work describes the places where people ...

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 ...

When James Forman Jr. was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor many years ago, she encouraged him to go to work for the Department of Justice or a national civil rights organization.