A hair-like protein hidden inside bacteria serves as a sort of on-off switch for nature’s “electric grid,” a global web of bacteria-generated nanowires that permeates all oxygen-less soil and deep ocean beds, Yale researchers report in the journal Nature...
Human evolution has provided us some protection from the existential threat of cold temperatures through our capacity to produce heat from fat stored in the body. But as we age, we become more susceptible to cold and to inflammation and metabolic problems...
The Vinland Map, once hailed as the earliest depiction of the New World, is awash in 20th-century ink. A team of conservators and conservation scientists at Yale has found compelling new evidence for this conclusion through the most thorough analysis yet...
On Aug. 23, the 1,789 members of Yale College’s Class of 2025, the largest incoming class in Yale’s history, began moving into their residential colleges. As new students arrived on campus throughout the week, they were greeted by first-year counselors,...
When it comes to long-lasting protection against COVID-19, antibodies — proteins created by B cells to neutralize invading pathogens — are our biggest allies, a new Yale study shows.
Since the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the relative contributions...