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 ...

Kai T. Erikson, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and American Studies, Emeritus at Yale, whose eloquent voice in defense of human communities changed the understanding of the way ...

Professor Stephen Waxman, pioneer in non-addictive pain therapies that paved the way for a new class of pain medication, honored ...

Pointing out potentially misleading posts on social media significantly reduces the number of reposts, likes, replies, and views generated by such content, according to a new study co-authored by Yale ...

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 ...

Small, colorless, and blind, amblyopsid cavefishes inhabit subterranean waters throughout the eastern United States. In a new study, Yale researchers reveal insights into just how these distinctive ...

The ability to correct disease-causing genetic mistakes using genome editors holds great promise in medicine, but it is not without risk. When this type of “genetic surgery” is performed on DNA, for ...

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 ...

Caligula, the notoriously erratic Roman emperor known for his bloodthirsty cruelty, probably also possessed a nerd’s knowledge of medicinal plants, according to a new Yale study. The study, by the ...

A new Yale-led study shows that Americans who self-report having positive attitudes toward non-Americans actually often demonstrate implicit anti-immigrant biases. These automatic negative impressions ...

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 ...

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 ...