As the COVID-19 pandemic exploded across the globe in early 2020, the world’s leaders were faced with a flurry of moral dilemmas. Who should receive scarce resources, such as ventilators, when there wouldn’t be enough for everyone? Should people be...
Giving women in India’s Madhya Pradesh state greater digital control over their wages encouraged them to enter the labor force and liberalized their beliefs about working women, concluded a new study co-authored by Yale economists Rohini Pande and Charity...
Over the last 16 months, as COVID-19 dramatically upended routine life and now gradually subsides in many places, including Connecticut, few spaces on the Yale campus saw as much transformation as the Lanman Center in Payne Whitney Gymnasium.
Early in the...
The psychedelic drug psilocybin, a naturally occurring compound found in some mushrooms, has been studied as a potential treatment for depression for years. But exactly how it works in the brain and how long beneficial results might last is still unclear...
Flies have discriminating taste. Like a gourmet perusing a menu, they spend much of their time seeking sweet nutritious calories and avoiding bitter, potentially toxic food. But what happens in their brains when they make these food choices?
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Researchers have found a metabolic pathway that is highly correlated with immune responses to COVID-19 among male patients, a group known to be more likely to suffer severe cases and die of the disease. An understanding of this relationship could offer a...