Contrary to popular belief, some very smart, accomplished people cannot read well. This unexpected difficulty in reading in relation to intelligence, education and professional status is called dyslexia, and researchers at Yale School of Medicine and...
Female ducks have evolved an intriguing way to avoid becoming impregnated by undesirable but aggressive males endowed with large corkscrew-shaped penises: vaginas with clockwise spirals that thwart oppositely spiraled males.More details of this...
The kinds of increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide taking place today could have a significantly larger effect on global temperatures than previously thought, according to a new study led by Yale University geologists. Their findings appear December 20...
A group of scientists has succeeded in creating the first transistor made from a single molecule. The team, which includes researchers from Yale University and the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea, published their findings in the...
Grammy-winning Oscar-nominated singer-songwriter Aimee Mann was a Visiting Speaker at the Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds on Dec. 3.Ms. Mann was invited by Joel Gelernter, Professor of Psychiatry, Genetics, & Neurobiology, who said her great...
Renowned architect Frank Gehry (April 8) and best-selling author Tom Vanderbilt (February 22) will be among the guest speakers at Yale School of Architecture (YSA) in a series of public events that also includes an international symposium, “Architecture...
In research that could open new avenues of investigation in the prevention and treatment of fractures, in bone regeneration and tissue engineering, scientists from Yale School of Medicine have found that a combination of bone marrow aspiration followed by...
Yale University researchers, analyzing hundreds of billions of bits of genetic information, have collated and standardized 2,000 signposts that mark the boundaries of large blocks of human genomic variants.This library of genomic “breakpoints’’ was...
The range of Lyme disease is spreading in North America and it appears that birds play a significant role by transporting the Lyme disease bacterium over long distances, a new study by the Yale School of Public Health has found. The study appears online...
Nancy Ruddle wins Lifetime Achievement Award for her groundbreaking scientific contributions Nancy H. Ruddle, professor emerita in the Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the School of Public Health, received the 2009 Lifetime Achievement...