Image Courtesy of Flickr. How did Ken and Barbie make their way into the genome? In the podcast Science Friday, “Science Diction” host and producer
Photo courtesy of Emily Boring, communicated by Paul-Alexander Lejas Although religion and science are frequently portrayed as conflicting forces, Emily Boring (YC ’18, DIV ’23)
Image courtesy of Pixabay. In his book Performance All the Way Down, Yale curator and ornithologist Richard Prum champions intersectionality to explore evolutionary and developmental
Art Courtesy of Patricia Joseph. Over a still pond, a raindrop falls on a line of water striders. It engulfs one of the insects, launching
Art Courtesy of Jiya Mody. According to the CDC, overdoses involving opioids claimed the lives of 80,411 Americans in 2021. Amid this crisis, healthcare professionals
Art Courtesy of Patricia Joseph. For all our Ice Age movies, artistic renderings, and sci-fi murmurings of de-extinction, mammoths have never quite lost their mythic
Image Courtesy of Wannapik Studio. The use of hand gestures for communication has a long history, dating as far back as 5 B.C.E. in ancient
Image Courtesy of Creazilla. In a world where cancer claims millions of lives every year, a pioneering study by Yale’s Krishnaswamy lab in collaboration with
Image Courtesy of Singamaneni laboratory. As strange as it sounds, locusts may play an important role in uncovering the mysteries behind smell. For a long
Image Courtesy of Picryl. If you are a patient soon undergoing open-heart mitral valve surgery—surgery to correct one of four major valves in the heart—the
Image Courtesy of Pexels. Since 400 A.D., the Cannabis sativa plant—more commonly known as marijuana—has served as a remedy prescribed to alleviate conditions including pain,
Photo Courtesy of Nyla Marcott. A substance that was previously viewed as trash might be treasure. Lignin, a byproduct of paper production, has been transformed