Richard Deming was at work on an essay about the 2008 film “Synecdoche, New York” when he received an unexpected phone call from an old friend. Philip Seymour Hoffman, the star of that very film, had just been found dead of a drug overdose.
The news was...
The Yale Club of New Haven honored 43 high school seniors from the Greater New Haven area during its annual Yale-Seton Book Award celebration, held Oct. 16 at Davenport College.
The students were selected by their schools in recognition of “outstanding...
An experimental drug can reduce the toxic changes in tau proteins known to damage neurons in brains with Alzheimer’s disease, researchers from Yale School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins University report.
While much research related to Alzheimer’s disease...
Astronomers have found the oldest-known X-ray quasar in the universe — and its properties align exactly with predictions for a new class of distant objects made by Yale astronomer Priyamvada Natarajan and her research group.
In a new study in the journal...