Dr. Christopher van Dyck, one of the world’s leading experts on the neurobiology and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, was recently appointed the Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of ...

Lissencephaly is a spectrum of rare, genetic disorders in which the brain fails to develop its hallmark folds. The disorders are often associated with seizures and intellectual disability and ...

Scientists at Yale and the University of Connecticut have taken a major step in understanding how animal brains make decisions, revealing a crucial role for electrical synapses in “filtering” sensory ...

Happy anniversary, Yale Quantum Institute. It’s time for a cake topped with “entangled” candles that are simultaneously lit and unlit. How else to celebrate a decade of excellence in one of science’s ...

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 ...

When Robert van Sice first began teaching percussion, he, like many young teachers, worked primarily from a one-size-fits-all methodology. “You know, ‘I believe this about percussion playing, and if ...

The environmental threat posed by atmospheric rivers — long, narrow ribbons of water vapor in the sky — doesn’t come only in the form of concentrated, torrential downpours and severe flooding ...

Phages, viruses that infect bacteria, are the most abundant and diverse biological entities on earth, where they can be found anywhere from soil to oceans to the human gut — and typically outnumber ...

At Yale, 2024 was a year of transformation and renewal. The university welcomed a new president, Maurie McInnis, an accomplished scholar, university leader, and alumna who first arrived on campus as a ...

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 ...

Could complex beliefs like paranoia have roots in something as basic as vision? A new Yale study finds evidence that they might. When completing a visual perception task, in which participants had to ...

Yale College has offered admission to 728 applicants for the Class of 2029 through its early action program, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions announced on Dec. 17. Among all 6,729 early action ...