It may be time for the animal kingdom to reset its clock. According to a new study by an international group of researchers, including a renowned Yale paleontologist, the beginning of animal life on ...

With flu season once again on the horizon here in the U.S., health experts say we’re now entering “vaccination season.” And October is the ideal time to get the jab, according to Scott Roberts, an ...

Within breastfeeding research, there’s a widely recognized need to move beyond using only duration of breastfeeding as the measure of “successful breastfeeding” and to integrate person-centered ...

Three hundred and twenty-five years ago, in early October of 1701, Connecticut’s governor and representatives assembled in general court in New Haven to pass “An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate ...

Lesley Rosenthal of The Juilliard School will serve as Yale’s next university secretary, President Maurie McInnis announced Monday. A higher education and arts executive with extensive nonprofit ...

The average life span for Americans hovered around 40 years for the first 100 years of the nation’s existence. But after 1880, breakthroughs in modern medicine and public health resulted in a dramatic ...

It might soon be “game over” for the video game controller. Yale researchers have developed a new kind of brain-computer interface (BCI) that lets humans play video games directly with their brains.

The hospice movement got its start in the United States right here in New Haven. In the late 1960s, former Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Dean Florence Schorske Wald attended a speech given by hospice ...

Since it was first composed by Homer nearly 3,000 years ago, “The Odyssey” has been reimagined countless times. From Greek drama to contemporary poetry, from Stanley Kubrick to the Coen brothers, the ...

Millions of Americans count right-leaning Fox News as their primary source of information about politics and current events. A new working paper co-authored by Yale political scientist Joshua Kalla ...

In his new book “Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire” (Basic Books), Yale professor Eckart Frahm offers a comprehensive history of the ancient civilization (circa 2025 BCE to 609 ...

Up-close tick encounters are nothing new to Peter Krause. As a tick-borne disease researcher, he’s conducted fieldwork where these parasites live. After one trip to Block Island, off the coast of ...