A Yale-led study shows that the senses stimulate a region of the brain that controls consciousness — a finding that might inform treatment for disorders related to attention, arousal, and more.

Mar Short, a Martian jazz-house artist, was born and raised in lava tubes at the bottom of the Valles Marineris, a 2,500-mile-long canyon that stretches along the Red Planet’s equator. Short’s ...

Most vaccines — and boosters — are injected directly into muscle tissue, usually in the upper arm, to kickstart the body’s immune system in the fight against disease. But for respiratory diseases like ...

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a single Zoom call sent Bez Mbeng on a path to Yale and Ivy League glory. Mbeng, who was a standout guard for Our Lady of Good Counsel high school in Olney, ...

About 15% of patients with typhoid fever develop serious neurological complications, including delirium and seizures, that are collectively described as acute encephalopathy. Until now, however, ...

In the early 1950s, as Nigeria approached independence from Great Britain, a vibrant literary culture developed in the vast and lively market of Onitsha, a city on the eastern bank of the Niger River.

Jessica Liu loved her high school AP computer science class so much that she was leaning toward studying computer science in college. But then a life-changing internship the summer of her sophomore ...

There was a full year ahead, and Ethan Levinbook wanted to use it well. For him, that meant learning French. Quarantined in his family’s Connecticut home during a COVID-19 gap year between high school ...

Keeley Brooks worried that she’d made a terrible mistake during her first few weeks at Yale. A violinist since the age of five, she’d long dreamed of attending a music conservatory, and had been ...

On Earth Day eve, more than a dozen scholars gathered at Horchow Hall for a brainstorming session on how to strengthen international collaboration in tackling climate change. To open the conversation, ...

Laurie Santos first noticed something amiss with parents a few years ago. “I saw how anxious and worried parents were when connecting with their kids at Yale,” said Santos, the Chandrika and Ranjan ...