A new study led by Yale anthropologist Catherine Panter-Brick examines how stakeholders in socially diverse, conflict-affected societies conceptualize everyday peace, drawing on a comparative analysis ...
The road to a more sustainable planet may be partially paved with manganese. According to a new study by researchers at Yale and the University of Missouri, chemical catalysts containing manganese — ...
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, ...
For years Yale researchers David Breslow and Mustafa Khokha have worked together with a similar challenge in their sights – trying to capture the interplay between certain genes and the pediatric ...
Professor Stephen Waxman, pioneer in non-addictive pain therapies that paved the way for a new class of pain medication, honored ...
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 ...
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 ...
Michel H. Devoret, the Frederick W. Beinecke Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics at Yale University, who has spent a career probing the intricate dynamics of qubits and quantum information, has won ...
Rates of self-reported cognitive disability among U.S. adults are on the increase, driven largely by a surprising jump among young adults ages 18 to 39, according to a new Yale study. In their ...
The ability to correct disease-causing genetic mistakes using genome editors holds great promise in medicine, but it is not without risk. When this type of “genetic surgery” is performed on DNA, for ...
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 ...
As an undergraduate student in the early 1980s, Marie Egan volunteered at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She’d often spend time in the hospital playrooms with children with serious illnesses ...