Patients diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can experience symptoms that include under-expression of emotions, such as numbness, as well as over-expression, such as rage outbursts. These seemingly contrasting symptoms may coexist due to...
Menachem Elimelech, the Sterling Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale, has been awarded the Connecticut Medal of Technology, the state’s highest honor for technological achievement.
The award was announced by the Connecticut Academy...
Yale paleoanthropologist Jessica Thompson regularly organizes and conducts scientific fieldwork in Malawi, a country in southeastern Africa where she and her colleagues discover and analyze evidence of early human activity.
She considers the opportunity...
In the latest edition of Humanitas, a column focused on the arts and humanities at Yale, a book that centers Native Americans in the country’s history earns national acclaim; a boundary-smashing artist brings a “sensory circuit workout” to campus; a Yale...
Astronomers at Yale and the University of Hong Kong have proposed a new strategy for finding the universe’s first stars — by looking for signs of their final, fiery flares.
For years, scientists have searched for direct evidence of “Population III” stars...