The hospice movement got its start in the United States right here in New Haven. In the late 1960s, former Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Dean Florence Schorske Wald attended a speech given by hospice ...

In the fall of 2022, hospitals across the U.S. saw a severe spike in cases of influenza, SARS-CoV-2, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a phenomenon that became known as the “tripledemic.” As ...

Emma Hartman, a paper conservator at the Yale University Art Gallery, uses a microscope while conserving a mid-18th century painting from northern India depicting a Mughal emperor. Hartman has been ...

An estimated two in five people who are incarcerated have a history of mental illness, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Most receive no treatment for their mental health issues ...

It’s mid-afternoon on a hot summer day in Mississippi, and Matt Dolan ’82 has assembled a small army of promising high school students at Mississippi State University in Starkville for some academic ...

Yale astronomers may have discovered the origin story for one of the universe’s most dazzling phenomena — the double “hot Jupiter” — as well as a plan to find more of them. Hot Jupiters are large, ...

What happens when computer scientists, artists, theologians, and engineers walk into the same room? At the inaugural Envisioning AI at Yale symposium, it was more than a thought experiment — it was ...

As rising global temperatures alter ecosystems worldwide, animal species usually have two choices: adapt to changing local conditions or flee to a cooler clime. Ecologists have long assumed that the ...

Humans perceive and navigate the world around us with the help of our five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. And while scientists have long known that these different senses activate ...

A Yale-led research team has uncovered how a naturally occurring biological mechanism is able to prevent sperm cells from interacting with an egg, preventing fertilization. The discovery, found in ...

Yale’s capacity to conduct high-performance computing and artificial intelligence-related research continues to expand, thanks to a pair of recent moves aimed at advancing the university’s computing ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism — a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon — using a cellular platform that they developed ...