Ron Breaker, FAS Dean of Science; Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and a team of researchers in the Breaker Lab have reported the discovery of RNA ‘aptamers’ that bind lithium in mammals, providing new evidence that RNA molecules may play a previously unrecognized role in sensing and responding to lithium in human cells.

The Yale labs of Anna Marie Pyle, Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Professor of Chemistry, and Craig Wilen, Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine, have developed a norovirus vaccine, effective in mouse models, that portends a new approach to vaccine development for emerging RNA viruses.

Pieter van Dokkum, the Sol Goldman Family Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics, led a research team that discovered evidence of how space is reclaiming the basic elements from a dying star. 

Emma Zang, Associate Professor of Sociology, Biostatistics, and Global Affairs, examines how social environments, policies, and family dynamics shape health, aging, gender inequality, and people’s lives across generations. Learn more about her research in this Q&A.

This new video highlights three scholars — Cosmochemist Damanveer Grewal, Egyptologist Victoria Almansa-Villatoro, and Data Scientist Johan Ugander — who joined Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences in the Fall of 2025.

A study led by Jeremy Cohen, Associate Research Scientist in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and Walter Jetz, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, links severe weather to bird ranges and biodiversity for hundreds of North American birds. Accounting for extreme weather, the authors say, is critical to understanding and predicting where species are found in the environment.

A research team co-led by Angela Zoumplis, a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, has identified complex organisms near the Blood Falls area of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica — a discovery that offers new implications for how microbial life adapts to harsh environmental conditions.

Meital Peleg Mizrachi, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Economics, explains why fashion regulations worldwide fail to adequately protect garment workers and the environment.

A new study coauthored by Claire Bowern, Professor of Linguistics, suggests that tens of thousands of languages were spoken between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago.

With the recent release of Christopher Nolan’s long-awaited film adaptation, Benedek Kruchió, Assistant Professor of Classics, considers how the “poem of multitudes” has been adapted and reimagined over millennia.