About 20 years ago, one of Katherine McKenzie’s colleagues asked her if she was interested in performing forensic medical evaluations (FME) for asylum seekers. “I didn’t know much about the field, but ...

When Anthony Acciavatti graduated college in 2004, he set an ambitious goal for himself: map the entire Ganges River Basin. The Ganges River flows from the Himalayas across India’s northern plains and ...

Researchers at Yale, Google, and the University of California-Santa Barbara have created a device that simulates the quantum “tunneling” behavior of protons that occurs in chemistry, a process so ...

Make way for MOTHRA, the world’s largest all-lens telescope, which intends to detect some of the faintest light in the universe. Co-created by Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and University of ...

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 ...

The tenant of a newly built residence on a woodsy ridgeline in New Haven’s Fair Haven Heights neighborhood will sleep in the treetops. A picture window in the bedroom offers views, through ...

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 ...

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) — implantable medical devices used to treat neurological conditions — are becoming increasingly sophisticated, making them more vulnerable to cyberattacks. The paper ...

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 ...

In a world filled with sketchy stratagems and bad moves in every direction, the grandmasters of chess stand apart. There are fewer than 2,000 grandmasters worldwide. They play the “royal game” at the ...

Violence and trauma leave inheritable markers on a person’s genome that persist over multiple generations, according to a new study coauthored by Yale anthropologist Catherine Panter-Brick. The ...

COVID-19 vaccines have been instrumental in reducing the impact of the pandemic, preventing severe illness and death, and they appear to protect against long COVID. However, some individuals have ...