The average life span for Americans hovered around 40 years for the first 100 years of the nation’s existence. But after 1880, breakthroughs in modern medicine and public health resulted in a dramatic ...

In 1562, Cardinal Giovanni de Medici, a scion of the dynastic family that dominated politics and banking in Tuscany during the Renaissance, died of malaria. Twenty-five years later, his older brother, ...

As the leading cause of viral gastroenteritis worldwide, norovirus is an all too familiar ailment. Its telltale digestive upset — not to mention its reputation for being notoriously contagious — has ...

It might soon be “game over” for the video game controller. Yale researchers have developed a new kind of brain-computer interface (BCI) that lets humans play video games directly with their brains.

A Yale-led research team has developed the first standalone device that produces the liquid fuel methanol using only sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide as the ingredients. The artificial “leaf,” like ...

Since the COVID-19 pandemic first swept the world in 2020, the chronic condition known as long COVID has baffled the medical community. In the years since, scientists have tried to determine why a ...

A new large-scale study led by a research team from the Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change has found that wildlife responds not only to how humans reshape their habitats, but also to the ...

Up-close tick encounters are nothing new to Peter Krause. As a tick-borne disease researcher, he’s conducted fieldwork where these parasites live. After one trip to Block Island, off the coast of ...

Connecticut’s quantum sector is having a moment, thanks in part to a Yale startup that has long been viewed as a key element in promoting a flourishing tech ecosystem in New Haven that generates jobs, ...

When Ellen Foxman began her postdoctoral work at Yale School of Medicine (YSM) in 2010, she was interested in what respiratory viruses could reveal about the human immune system. Having a young son ...

Normally, quantum events are impossible to observe without altering their outcome. That’s not the case with the growing number of events surrounding quantum technology in Connecticut. As efforts ramp ...

In 1945, Grand Rapids, Michigan, made history — as the first city in the world to add small amounts of fluoride to its public water supply. At the time, studies showed communities with higher levels ...