High school students who use e-cigarettes are more likely to smoke cigarettes in subsequent years, according to a new Yale University study published Dec. 4 in the journal Pediatrics. Those who smoke cigarettes, by contrast, are no more likely than non-...
The loss of forests in Africa in the past century is substantially less than previously estimated, an analysis of historical records and paleontology evidence by Yale researchers shows.
Previous estimates put deforestation at 35% to 55% on the continent...
Right after conception, hundreds of tiny mutations begin to accumulate in cells of a developing fetus, a process that continues, but at a much slower rate, well into adulthood, a new study by researchers at Yale and the Mayo Clinic shows. The...
Yale geneticists have expanded the potential uses of a groundbreaking gene-editing technology by modifying a single variable — temperature.
The CRISPR-Cpf1 gene-editing technology has proved to be highly efficient in mice but not in other model organisms...
Near Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., a population of mosquitoes capable of transmitting tropical diseases is hunkering down for a sixth straight winter. A new study of this group of Aedes aegypti shows they originated in Florida and, unlike their...
For ducks, size matters — but not in the way you might expect.
Penises of some species of ducks grow extremely long in spring, only to shrink to 10% of their maximum size in the fall and winter, Yale researchers report Sept. 20 in the journal Auk. And it...
Moral outrage historically has helped identify and punish some of the worst malefactors among us; however that original purpose could be perverted in the Internet age, argues Yale psychologist Molly Crockett in the Sept. 18 issue of the journal Nature...
Depression, panic disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder represent no threat to the health of pregnant women or their babies, although there may be slight risks associated with medications used to treat those conditions, according to new Yale study...