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EDA AKER
Yale study explores visual consciousness in rhesus monkeys

A recent study published in late March by psychologists and neuroscientists from Yale and other research institutions found that monkeys can process visual cues in […]

April 12, 2021

BEATRIZ HORTA
UP CLOSE | Socially distant science: How the School of Medicine adapted to research during a pandemic

April 9, 2021

ROSE HOROWITCH & MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO
Student vaccine availability limited, uncertain despite college clinic announcement, eligibility expansion

Most Yale students have been eligible for COVID-19 vaccines in Connecticut since Apr. 1, but leaders of Yale Health and the Yale New Haven Health […]

April 7, 2021

A sign welcoming people to a YNHHS vaccine site
NICOLE RODRIGUEZ
Yale students enter as finalists in Dept. of Energy’s Solar Decathlon

After submitting their application to the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon last October, a team of four Yale undergraduates have now applied to be finalists […]

April 7, 2021

A rendering of the students
SAM PANNER
Yale study introduces breakthrough bio-based plastic

New research conducted by scientists at Yale, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Maryland could help phase out traditional plastics. Researchers at the […]

April 5, 2021

BEATRIZ HORTA
Yale study uses fMRI to study attention in babies

Researchers in the Yale Department of Psychology measured activation in babies’ frontal lobes during attention exercises for the first time by using fMRI — a […]

April 5, 2021

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KAITLIN FLORES
Pfizer vaccine leads to ‘significantly lower’ case rates in nursing homes, Yale study finds

A recent study published in collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Yale School of Public Health and the Connecticut Department of […]

April 4, 2021

A close-up of a vial of the Pfizer COVID vaccine.
ERIN BAILEY
New lung disease center opens in North Haven

Yale New Haven Hospital’s Winchester Center for Lung Disease opened on Tuesday. The state-of-the-art facility will serve as a comprehensive pulmonary center for lung health. […]

April 1, 2021

VERONICA LEE & ANJALI MANGLA
Carcinogen found in hand sanitizer distributed by Yale

On March 26, students, faculty and staff were notified in an email from Yale’s Environmental Health & Safety Department, or EHS, that benzene, a substance […]

April 1, 2021

MAI CHEN
Primordial lightning strikes are potential source of life on Earth, Yale study finds

A new study by researchers at Yale and the University of Leeds suggests that prehistoric lightning bolts may have produced the biologically active phosphorus that […]

March 30, 2021

VERONICA LEE
Yale scientists develop novel technique to detect brain tumors

In a paper published in Scientific Reports last week, Yale researchers presented their development of a new sodium magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging, or MRSI, method […]

March 30, 2021