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 ...
On a recent Saturday night, more than 18,000 fans packed into Madison Square Garden for a sold-out game. They were all there to watch the New York Sirens face off against the Seattle Torrent, as the ...
Soil biologist Eric Slessarev has some advice for conservationists, landscapers, and farmers with fallow fields. Go touch deep-rooted grass. Or better yet, go plant some. Slessarev, an assistant ...
Conventional wisdom has held for some time that children who grow up in environments rich with biodiversity — farms, homes with pets, rural settings in general — are less likely to have allergies. The ...
Speeding up drug discovery in the age of AI may come down to a concept that’s comfortingly old-fashioned: Consulting a chemistry recipe book. It makes perfect sense. Designing a new synthetic molecule ...
About 9,500 years ago, a community of hunter-gatherers in central Africa cremated a small woman on an open pyre at the base of Mount Hora, a prominent natural landmark in what is now northern Malawi, ...
Buying and selling unwanted clothes on secondhand markets is widely hailed as a sustainable way to reduce the consumption of new clothes and alleviate the environmental damage caused by the fashion ...
Major law firms across the globe are investing in artificial intelligence (AI) platforms designed to streamline their work. But AI can also play a more socially conscious role in the legal arena: ...
In 2016 psychiatrist Benjamin Kelmendi was treating two patients with severe, treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) at a Connecticut mental health center when the patients abruptly ...
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 ...
One-third of people older than 85 in the United States are estimated to live with Alzheimer’s disease today, according to the National Institute on Aging. The condition’s characteristic long, slow ...
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) — implantable medical devices used to treat neurological conditions — are becoming increasingly sophisticated, making them more vulnerable to cyberattacks. The paper ...