Contrary to popular belief, melatonin does not shift circadian rhythms when taken for conditions like jet lag, but it can promote sleep if taken in the evening, a study by Yale researchers has found.

Yale research saves lives, bolsters national interests, and strengthens the economy. In countless communities across America, it serves infants born with heart defects, prevents and slows the ...

Three Yale juniors — Meena Ambati, Camille Chiu, and Karinne Tennenbaum — are among the 441 U.S. college students awarded Goldwater Scholarships for the 2025-26 academic year (along with another 64 ...

Yale senior Liana Schmitter-Emerson was recently awarded a one-year fellowship from the James C. Gaither Junior Fellows program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The prestigious ...

As Dame Jacinda Ardern, the former prime minister of New Zealand, guided her country through the COVID-19 pandemic and other crises, she grappled with a lingering sense of uncertainty. Like so many ...

In her first Baccalaureate address as Yale’s 24th president, Maurie McInnis on Sunday urged members of the exceptionally large Yale College Class of 2025 to see the potential in our shared humanity ...

Eleven members of the Yale College Class of 2025 who distinguished themselves in the classroom, on the athletic field, and in their communities were honored with top prizes today in one of Class Day’s ...

Mar Short, a Martian jazz-house artist, was born and raised in lava tubes at the bottom of the Valles Marineris, a 2,500-mile-long canyon that stretches along the Red Planet’s equator. Short’s ...

A Yale-led study shows that the senses stimulate a region of the brain that controls consciousness — a finding that might inform treatment for disorders related to attention, arousal, and more.

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 ...

Here, Yale News spotlights a few of the exceptional members of the Yale College Class of 2025, a group whose accomplishments and contributions have strengthened the Yale campus and the world beyond.