Public Affairs Officer for Neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, genetics, ecology & evolutionary biology, cell biology at Yale University.
Advanced imaging technology developed by Yale researchers has helped them confirm that the destruction of brain synapses underlies the cognitive deficits experienced by patients with Alzh...
The past decade has seen important but insufficient progress in protecting areas that are home to endangered species worldwide, conservation leaders say. As governments prepare to discuss...
The extinction of iconic grazing mammals like woolly mammoth, giant bison, and ancient horses triggered a dramatic increase in fire activity in the world’s grasslands, according to a new ...
The diagnosis of mental illnesses such as major depression, schizophrenia, or anxiety disorder is typically based on coarse groupings of symptoms. These symptoms, however, vary widely amo...
果蝇偏爱特定的味道。它们会花费大量时间寻找味甜、有营养，且富含热量的食物，避开那些苦涩且可能有毒的食物，活像仔细阅读菜单的美食家一般。然而，当选择这些食物时，它们的大脑是如何运作的？
Flies have discriminating taste. Like a gourmet perusing a menu, they spend much of their time seeking sweet nutritious calories and avoiding bitter, potentially toxic food. But what happ...
It’s still a man’s world, a bias revealed in phrases about humanity as “measure of man” or “man shall not live by bread alone,” or the ubiquitous use of pronoun “he” even when subject is ...
Scientists have identified a possible neurobiological home for the spiritual experience—the sense of connection to something greater than oneself.
People tend to dislike immorality in others, but they make exceptions, a new Yale University study has found.
Are humans the only animal that knows what they don’t know? A new study by researchers at Yale and Harvard shows that rhesus monkeys also spontaneously recognize when they are ignorant an...
