Buying and selling unwanted clothes on secondhand markets is widely hailed as a sustainable way to reduce the consumption of new clothes and alleviate the environmental damage caused by the fashion ...

Professor Stephen Waxman, pioneer in non-addictive pain therapies that paved the way for a new class of pain medication, honored ...

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 ...

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 ...

Messenger RNA, or mRNA, vaccines entered the public consciousness when they were introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna used the technology in developing their ...

Caligula, the notoriously erratic Roman emperor known for his bloodthirsty cruelty, probably also possessed a nerd’s knowledge of medicinal plants, according to a new Yale study. The study, by the ...

A new Yale-led study shows that Americans who self-report having positive attitudes toward non-Americans actually often demonstrate implicit anti-immigrant biases. These automatic negative impressions ...

Advances in the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 over the past 15 years have yielded important new insights into the roles that specific genes play in many diseases. But to date this ...

For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly ...

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 ...