For every math and science accomplishment Sidney Richardson has racked up during her four years at Yale, she’s had an equally memorable experience outside of her comfort zone. Co-authoring a ...

A new Yale-led study provides evidence that industrialized lifestyles are changing how people regulate estrogen and other hormones through the gut microbiome — the ecosystem of microbes inside the ...

This story was updated on April 8 to include international scholars named to the 2026 cohort of Gates Cambridge Scholars. The U.S. scholars were announced in February. Three Yale seniors and two ...

When global leaders signed the Paris Agreement in 2015, pledging to limit global warming beneath 2 degrees C, it was widely expected that carbon markets would play a key role in meeting this target.

Stress influences what we learn and remember. The hormone cortisol, which is released during stressful situations, can make emotional memories in particular stronger. But how exactly does cortisol ...

Buying and selling unwanted clothes on secondhand markets is widely hailed as a sustainable way to reduce the consumption of new clothes and alleviate the environmental damage caused by the fashion ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

Yale’s endowment earned an 11.1% investment return, net of fees, for the year ending June 30, 2025, representing $4.5 billion in investment gains. After providing distributions of $2.1 billion to the ...

Earth’s Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for scientists. During earlier and later time periods, tectonic plates kept a steady ...

Rates of self-reported cognitive disability among U.S. adults are on the increase, driven largely by a surprising jump among young adults ages 18 to 39, according to a new Yale study. In their ...

In 2016 psychiatrist Benjamin Kelmendi was treating two patients with severe, treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) at a Connecticut mental health center when the patients abruptly ...

Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy (HDP) — like chronic or gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, and eclampsia — are among the leading causes of maternal and infant death in the United States. But ...