Earth’s Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for scientists. During earlier and later time periods, tectonic plates kept a steady ...

The Living Village student-housing complex at Yale Divinity School (YDS) was built to foster community that exists in harmony with nature. Its bright, spacious hallways encourage residents to get to ...

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 ...

Scholars, students, and thought leaders from across the Yale community will engage with partners from the region, the nation, and the world during Climate Week NYC (Sept. 21–28), the largest annual ...

In 1945, Grand Rapids, Michigan, made history — as the first city in the world to add small amounts of fluoride to its public water supply. At the time, studies showed communities with higher levels ...

One-third of people older than 85 in the United States are estimated to live with Alzheimer’s disease today, according to the National Institute on Aging. The condition’s characteristic long, slow ...

Yale astronomers may have discovered the origin story for one of the universe’s most dazzling phenomena — the double “hot Jupiter” — as well as a plan to find more of them. Hot Jupiters are large, ...

Eight Yale faculty members are among the nearly 250 leaders elected as new members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the academy announced this week. The academy — an honorary society and ...

Last night, a group gathered on Hewitt University Quadrangle. The gathering was not authorized by the university, and the group violated Yale’s time, place, and manner policies. University officials ...

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 ...

Yale President Maurie McInnis has convened a Committee on Trust in Higher Education that will seek to better understand public perception of colleges and universities and explore ways of strengthening ...

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 ...