Brandon Ogbunu's public science writing earned him a 2024 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications.

Muñoz, whose work has shed light on evolutionary processes, has been named a 2024 MacArthur “genius” fellow.

Using 25 years of genetic and demographic data, Yale researchers shed light on what causes owl monkeys to leave their parents.

In a new study, Yale researcher Alison Sweeney found that giant clams in the Western Pacific may be the most efficient solar energy system on the planet.

This message announces the winners of the 2023-2024 Heyman and Greer prizes for scholarship and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Award for Inclusion and Belonging.

Yale researchers have discovered evidence of why a fish group, considered “living fossils,” has existed largely unchanged for tens of millions of years.

Inside the greenhouse in the Marsh Botanical Garden, the nepenthes plant reached out, its towering stature allowing it to soak up the rays of sunlight from above. As she walked through the rows of plants, Professor Erika Edwards paused to inspect it, its pitchers poised to catch poor unsuspecting flies and insects as victims for its next meal.

Widespread megaherbivore extinctions 50,000 to 60,000 years ago had a major impact on grassland ecosystems around the world, a new Yale study reveals.

These four scientists explore the mysteries of life on earth while shaping the collections, exhibits, and programming at Yale’s natural history museum.

A new species of ant will be named after Jeremy Ayers, a mutual friend of Yale researcher Douglas B. Booher and R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe, as well as Warhol.