Humans perceive and navigate the world around us with the help of our five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. And while scientists have long known that these different senses activate ...

Zoë Colfax has enjoyed telling stories for as long as she can remember — whether performing on stage or sharing a silly story with her family. And as far back as third grade, when she made her theater ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Gruber Foundation today recognized four scientists who have made significant contributions to the fields of cosmology, genetics, and neuroscience. Recipients of the Gruber International Prize ...

Yale’s Jimmy Carter shares a certain quality with his late presidential namesake: a heart full of empathy and ambition. It’s what drew Carter, a graduating senior from Branford College majoring in ...

Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive black holes, or “hot Jupiters,” astronomers can spend months or years ...

Kala’i Anderson is devoted to Hawai’i, his home. “Hawai’i forms the basis of my identity,” said Anderson, who was born and raised on Maui. “It gives me a solid foundation and influences how I carry ...

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.

A few years ago, as a highly ranked high school tennis player from Northern California Luke Neal had several Ivy League options that offered him the chance to play tennis and pursue challenging ...

From an early age, Maxwell Brown has known his place in the circle of life. “My parents put me into different summer camps and training programs for musical theater,” Brown said. “I confess that I was ...

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 ...