Gender testing was first initiated 34 years ago to insure that men were not masquerading as women to compete in women’s international athletic events. The first test at the 1966 European Track and ...

An animation illustrating double hot Jupiter formation. Over millions of years, a Jupiter-like planet’s orbit is gradually stretched and tilted by perturbations from a stellar companion. Eventually, ...

“Our world has never been in greater need of leaders to address a wide range of challenges,” said John L. Hennessy, Stanford University president emeritus and the Shriram Family Director of ...

“I’m delighted to celebrate Priyasha, Sam, and Junliang for their outstanding scholarly work,” said Steven Wilkinson, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. “Their groundbreaking research on the ...

The latest President’s Public Service Fellows joined Yale President Maurie McInnis for breakfast at her campus home Wednesday, part of an annual tradition. Since 1994, more than 1,000 fellows have ...

Human genome editing historically has allowed for precise alterations of single base pairs by excising or inserting new sequences at a single location along the DNA strand. However, conventional gene ...

Like many orthopaedic surgeons, Gianakos was drawn to the field by her own experience as an athlete. She’s been in her patients’ shoes — as a dancer, a basketball player, and a track and field athlete ...

Galaxy clusters are some of the largest structures in the universe, containing massive amounts of hot gas, dark matter, and hundreds — even thousands — of galaxies. As an individual galaxy moves ...

Dark matter, which is thought to constitute the majority of all matter, does not reflect, absorb, or emit light. But it does have mass, which means it generates gravity and can cause gravitational ...

Almeling, professor of sociology in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, recently spoke with Yale News about the need for interdisciplinary conversations on male reproductive health, the prospects for ...

Marta L. Tellado ’02 Ph.D., the former president and chief executive officer of Consumer Reports, will serve as senior trustee starting July 1, and Carter Brooks Simonds ’99, a managing partner of the ...

The federal government began collaborating with the nation’s universities in the lead up to World War II as the country’s leaders realized the United States lagged scientifically behind its ...