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...
Ezra Edelman ’96, Academy Award-winning director of ESPN’s “O.J.: Made in America,” will discuss the documentary at Yale on Wednesday, Sept. 27, as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism.
Edelman’s visit will culminate a three-day on-campus screening of his...
Yale has joined 30 other universities and colleges in filing an amicus (friend-of-the-court) brief in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court challenging an executive order issued this year by the Trump administration.
The executive order issued in March, “...
Joann Sweasy treats the future of her postdocs with the same demanding attention and rigor she applies to experiments in her lab. For her strong advocacy for those working in her lab, Sweasy, the Ensign Professor of Therapeutic Radiology and professor of...
Americans appear profoundly unaware of the vast economic inequality that persists between black and white Americans in contemporary society, according to a new study by researchers at Yale University.
The study, published in the Proceedings of the...
Scientists have uncovered two closely related cytokines — molecules involved in cell communication and movement — that may explain why some people develop progressive multiple sclerosis (MS), the most severe form of the disease. The findings, authored by...