Growth in health care spending in the United States is driving increases in health insurance premiums, limiting people’s access to care and contributing to wage reductions, job losses, and rising ...

In a discovery as broad and far-reaching as the Big Muddy itself, a new, Yale-led study says farmers along the Mississippi River Basin are storing more carbon dioxide (CO2) in the soil than they are ...

A U.S. hospital was recently in the spotlight after 12 nurses who were laid off said they were being replaced with artificial intelligence-powered software. The situation has raised concerns about ...

The power of conversation: New David Brooks podcast considers how to find purpose and meaning in life Sep 13, 2026 9 min read Appointments ...

Yale School of Medicine awarded a nearly $25 million grant to map the developing brain and advance autism research ...

‘We can wind up on this treadmill of chasing after more and more... in a way that doesn’t lead to sustained happiness’: Laurie Santos on the psychology of consumerism ...

In theater, “break a leg” is a phrase used to wish a performer luck. But for ballet dancers, it isn’t simply an expression but an occupational reality. The intense physical demands of ballet put ...

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 ...

In his new book “Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire” (Basic Books), Yale professor Eckart Frahm offers a comprehensive history of the ancient civilization (circa 2025 BCE to 609 ...

The first thing people typically know about the father-son team of Kevin Czinger ’82, ’87 J.D and Lukas Czinger ’17 is the car. Known as the Czinger 21C, it’s sleek, sporty, and extremely fast. And it ...

Primordial black holes created in the first instants after the Big Bang — tiny ones smaller than the head of a pin and supermassive ones covering billions of miles — may account for all of the dark ...

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 ...