Yale researchers have shown that developmental abnormalities, including those that lead to pregnancy loss and autism, are controlled by the genetics of the fetus and placenta — and not the mother’s intrauterine environment.
The findings are reported in...
If paleontologists had a wish list, it would almost certainly include insights into two particular phenomena: how dinosaurs interacted with each other and how they began to fly.
The problem is, using fossils to deduce such behavior is a tricky business....
The only things Josh Beasley has up his sleeve are a passion for magic, a knowledge of cybersecurity, and a plan for serving his country.
Beasley, a 22-year-old graduating senior from Timothy Dwight College, often tells people his hobby is having hobbies...
The rise and fall of marine mollusks during ancient “hothouse” periods may offer a jarring glimpse of the fate of marine life over the next few centuries, a new study says.
Writing in the journal Current Biology, researchers at Yale, Stanford, and the...
Camara Aaron’s years at Yale have been a journey of courage and fear.
The fear came from wondering whether she truly belonged in the land of Lux et Veritas; the courage arrived when she found her voice and used it speak up, build a community of friends,...
The ancient burrowers of the seafloor have been getting a bum rap for years.
These prehistoric dirt churners — a wide assortment of worms, trilobites, and other animals that lived in Earth’s oceans hundreds of millions of years ago — are thought to have...
A Yale study has found that a self-conducted test involving the thumb and palm of one hand could help alert thousands of people each year to their risk of having a hidden aortic aneurysm.
Aortic aneurysms are the 13th most common cause of death among...