Children significantly prefer the taste of junk foods branded with licensed cartoon characters on the packaging, compared with the same foods without characters, finds a new study from the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University. The...
Yale University researchers have discovered a novel viral survival strategy, an insight that could help scientists better understand how viruses contribute to diseases such as cancer and AIDS.Viruses have developed a substantial bag of molecular tricks...
A new $5 million meningioma study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will seek to identify genes associated with meningioma, the most frequently reported primary intracranial tumor in the United States.Under the leadership of Elizabeth B....
The Pew Charitable Trusts has named Yale University faculty member and stem cell researcher Valerie Horsley, Ph.D., as a 2010 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.This program enables scientists who are early in their careers to expand their research...
Astronomers have glimpsed what could be the youngest known star at the very moment it is being born. Not yet fully developed into a true star, the object is in the earliest stages of star formation and has just begun pulling in matter from a surrounding...
Paleontologists have discovered the oldest mammalian tooth marks yet on the bones of ancient animals, including several large dinosaurs. They report their findings in a paper published online June 16 in the journal Paleontology.Nicholas Longrich of Yale...
American adults are in favor of legislation to prohibit weight discrimination, particularly in the workplace, according to a Yale University study published online in the journal Obesity. Researchers Rebecca M. Puhl, Ph.D., and Chelsea A. Heuer, M.P.H.,...
In the face of soaring obesity rates in the United States, a national dietary advisory committee that includes a Yale University professor is recommending sweeping changes to the American diet: a reduction in overall calorie consumption, drastically...
At the very heart of some of the most brilliant colors on the wings of butterflies lie bizarre structures, a multidisciplinary team of Yale researchers has found. These structures are intriguing the team’s scientists and engineers, who want to use them to...
If the awards that Kroon Hall has racked up in the 18 months since it was completed are any indication, the new home of Yale’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (FES) may someday have a prominent place in the history books about green...