It’s 9:50 p.m. and a long line of students is steadily accumulating in the basement of Timothy Dwight College (TD). They’re here for the spring semester opening night of the TD buttery — ...

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest general scientific societies, has named eight Yale faculty members as incoming fellows. It is Yale’s largest ...

Mutations in BRCA2 — a gene known to repair damaged DNA and suppress tumor formation — can predict an individuals’ predisposition to develop breast cancer, ovarian, prostate, pancreatic, and other ...

Yale University on March 24 announced the eight recipients of the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prizes, one of the world’s most significant international literary awards. The recipients, honored for their ...

W. Mark Saltzman, an engineer and educator who has been part of the Yale faculty since 2002, has been appointed the next head of Jonathan Edwards College, Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis announced in ...

Though we learn so much during our first years of life, we can’t, as adults, remember specific events from that time. Researchers have long believed we don’t hold onto these experiences because the ...

The renowned English Romantic painter J.M.W. Turner is celebrated as “the painter of light” for the masterly ways he depicted sunlight in his landscapes and seascapes. “The play of light is integral ...

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 ...

In 1994, a coalition of experts in brain health and epilepsy published a consensus statement on the appropriate criteria for driver licensing for people with epilepsy. Issued by the American Academy ...

Science fiction allows artists to speculate about the future through imaginative and technical concepts. But so often the prevailing vision of that future in popular culture tends toward the dystopian ...

In a world filled with sketchy stratagems and bad moves in every direction, the grandmasters of chess stand apart. There are fewer than 2,000 grandmasters worldwide. They play the “royal game” at the ...

A new network of research institutions co-founded by Yale is recruiting U.S.-based researchers to contribute their expertise to the next report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), ...