https://www.scmp.com/rss/521966/feed The latest news and top stories on Yale University. A prominent New Haven, Connecticut based private Ivy League research university, Yale University is dedicated to improving the world through outstanding research, scholarship, education, preservation and practice. Its main areas of focus include a broad liberal arts curriculum, graduate and professional studies across humanities, sciences, law and medicine. Recognised as the third-oldest higher education institution in the US, Yale is notable... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Tribune News Service Tribune News Service The patient initially came to see Dr Mark Supiano in 2017 because her family was concerned about her short-term memory loss. While taking her history and vital signs, Supiano, a geriatrician at the University of Utah, in the United States, saw that her blood pressure was 148/86: above normal despite her taking two medications intended to lower it. “Clearly that was too high,” he says. Several factors could have contributed to the high reading, including the anti-inflammatory drug the 78-year-old... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/3349632/how-hypertensions-links-dementia-make-blood-pressure-control-even-more-important?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/3349632/how-hypertensions-links-dementia-make-blood-pressure-control-even-more-important?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:15:07 +0000 SCMP SCMP We have put together stories from our coverage on science from the past two weeks to help you stay informed. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Chinese embassy in US confirms death of semiconductor researcher Wang Danhao Chinese semiconductor researcher Wang Danhao died at the University of Michigan last month, shortly after being questioned by US federal law enforcement. 2. ‘Impossible for Chinese’: Yale scientist Zhang Kai leaves US for China Zhang... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3349349/chinese-embassy-confirms-wang-danhao-death-spacex-challenger-fails-7-science-highlights?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3349349/chinese-embassy-confirms-wang-danhao-death-spacex-challenger-fails-7-science-highlights?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:00:07 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Threatening to destroy Iran’s electricity grid and to reduce the country of 90 million to destitution, US President Donald Trump is shattering precedent by not just accepting but gloating about acts seen as potential war crimes. The consequences for Trump, at least in the near term, are probably none, experts say, as his administration works hard to undermine international institutions tasked with keeping norms. The Geneva Conventions governing the laws of war, agreed following World War II,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3348912/trumps-stone-age-threats-against-iran-spark-war-crimes-alarm?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3348912/trumps-stone-age-threats-against-iran-spark-war-crimes-alarm?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:26:47 +0000 Shi Huang Shi Huang For Zhang Kai, a pioneering scientist who is building an ultra-large-scale cellular structure group data bank with unprecedented precision, returning home to China was the natural choice to fulfil his ambition. “In the United States, it is almost impossible for a Chinese scholar to take the lead on this project,” Zhang said during a March 26 interview with China Science Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the country’s most prestigious research institution. On... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3348675/impossible-chinese-yale-scientist-zhang-kai-leaves-us-break-racial-ceiling?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3348675/impossible-chinese-yale-scientist-zhang-kai-leaves-us-break-racial-ceiling?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:00:10 +0000 Meredith Chen Meredith Chen Beijing-based high-school teacher Jiang Xueqin may not seem like an obvious candidate for a geopolitical “prophet”. Dressed casually in a polo shirt, the greying Chinese-Canadian looks unassuming. But through his hugely popular Predictive History YouTube channel, Jiang has become known as “China’s Nostradamus”, gaining a following for his outlook on world affairs. While most of his fans are outside China, his lectures and interviews have been translated and uploaded on Chinese social media... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3348289/jiang-xueqin-viral-prophet-predicting-worlds-fate-beijing-classroom?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3348289/jiang-xueqin-viral-prophet-predicting-worlds-fate-beijing-classroom?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:00:10 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliament speaker and a veteran of the Revolutionary Guards, has emerged as the highest-profile political figure in the Islamic Republic after the killing of its leaders. A pillar of the Iranian establishment for some three decades and one of the Islamic republic’s most prominent non-clerical figures, Ghalibaf, 64, now appears to be playing a key role spearheading the war effort. Whereas the son and successor of slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Mojtaba... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3347261/irans-parliament-speaker-emerges-key-figure-war-after-assassinations?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3347261/irans-parliament-speaker-emerges-key-figure-war-after-assassinations?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 20 Mar 2026 05:24:41 +0000 Ishani Sarkar Ishani Sarkar Ryan Murphy’s hit FX series Love Story is coming to a close, but fans are not ready to say goodbye. The show follows the highly publicised romance between “America’s prince”, John F. Kennedy Jr – son of former US president John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis – and his fashion publicist wife, Carolyn Bessette, who tragically lost their lives in a plane crash in 1999. The success of Love Story has launched leading actors Paul Anthony Kelly and Sarah Pidgeon to fame – and is also... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3347137/meet-sophie-von-haselberg-bette-midlers-daughter-and-carolyn-bessettes-boss-tanya-love-story?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3347137/meet-sophie-von-haselberg-bette-midlers-daughter-and-carolyn-bessettes-boss-tanya-love-story?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:00:19 +0000 Alice Yan Alice Yan The English version of a book about the popular poker-like Chinese card game Guandan has been accepted by libraries at top universities in the United States. The acceptance marks a milestone in efforts to spread knowledge about the game to the world. The Essence of Guandan, or Guandan Xin Fa in Chinese, was written by Yu Mingyang, an economics professor from the prestigious Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Shanghai Morning Post reported. Its Chinese version was published in 2023, with the... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3340703/book-guandan-china-poker-game-accepted-harvard-library-nations-premier-fan?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3340703/book-guandan-china-poker-game-accepted-harvard-library-nations-premier-fan?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 01 Feb 2026 06:00:09 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Reza Pahlavi, who as a boy was groomed to be the next shah of imperial Iran but has spent nearly five decades in exile, has emerged as a rallying figure in the protests shaking the Islamic Republic. The chant of “Pahlavi will come back!” has become a mantra for many of the protesters, while the US-based 65-year-old has urged nightly actions in video messages. Pahlavi’s prominence in the protest movement has surprised some observers. Pahlavi has during the latest protest wave shown an “ability to... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3339697/exiled-shahs-son-emerges-rallying-figure-iranians-protest?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3339697/exiled-shahs-son-emerges-rallying-figure-iranians-protest?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 13 Jan 2026 05:28:30 +0000 Richard James Havis Richard James Havis What is the quickest path to happiness? It could be to trade our smartphones for saffron robes and head to a monastery on Hong Kong’s Lantau Island or in the Himalayas. There, we can lead a life of quiet reflection – with clean food, fresh air and few overheads. For most of us – navigating the pressures of career, family and a city that never hits the “pause” button – monkhood is not an option. As we begin a new year, the question remains: is happiness something we find or something we... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/3338397/how-concept-happiness-has-evolved-through-ages-and-ways-achieve-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/3338397/how-concept-happiness-has-evolved-through-ages-and-ways-achieve-it?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 03 Jan 2026 11:15:09 +0000 Ling Xin Ling Xin The US Congress passed its annual defence bill on Wednesday, easing concerns among researchers by dropping a controversial proposal targeting US-China scientific collaboration, even as it imposed new restrictions on Chinese biotechnology companies. The SAFE (Securing American Funding and Expertise from Adversarial Research Exploitation) Research Act would have denied federal funding to any US researcher working with scientists from China and several other countries, but it did not make it into... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3336886/us-lawmakers-killed-proposal-targeting-science-efforts-china-and-did-instead?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3336886/us-lawmakers-killed-proposal-targeting-science-efforts-china-and-did-instead?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:00:10 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Frank Gehry, who designed some of the most imaginative buildings ever constructed and achieved a level of worldwide acclaim seldom afforded any architect, has died. He was 96. Gehry died on Friday in his home in Santa Monica after a brief respiratory illness, said Meaghan Lloyd, chief of staff at Gehry Partners. Gehry won every major prize that architecture has to offer. His fascination with modern pop art led to the creation of some of the most wildly imaginative buildings ever constructed and... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3335427/frank-gehry-most-celebrated-architect-his-time-dies-96?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3335427/frank-gehry-most-celebrated-architect-his-time-dies-96?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:25:32 +0000 Sylvia Ma Sylvia Ma A prominent American economist has cautioned that the United States and China risk developing a “fixation” with national security, a tendency he said was distracting from the domestic challenges facing both countries. “We’ve taken the concept of national security too far,” said Stephen Roach, a senior fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Centre, at the US-China Hong Kong Forum on Monday. He called on Washington and Beijing to draw a clear distinction between economic and national... https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3333260/us-and-chinas-national-security-fixation-has-gone-too-far-stephen-roach-warns?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3333260/us-and-chinas-national-security-fixation-has-gone-too-far-stephen-roach-warns?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:30:19 +0000 Ishani Sarkar Ishani Sarkar It’s official – Reacher is coming back very soon! In an interview with Collider, star Alan Ritchson, who plays the titular character of Jack Reacher, confirmed that filming for the fourth season has almost wrapped up. “It’s like I see the light at the end of the tunnel,” he said, calling the upcoming instalment the “best season we’ve ever made, by a long shot”. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Alan Ritchson (@alanritchson) Glow star Sydelle Noel... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3332646/meet-willa-fitzgerald-who-played-roscoe-reacher-and-was-rumoured-have-dated-maya-hawke?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3332646/meet-willa-fitzgerald-who-played-roscoe-reacher-and-was-rumoured-have-dated-maya-hawke?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 14 Nov 2025 10:00:16 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press US President Donald Trump boasts that his tariffs protect American industries, lure factories to the United States, raise money for the federal government and give him diplomatic leverage. Now, he is claiming they can finance a windfall for American families, too – he’s promising a generous tariff dividend. The president proposed the idea on social media on Sunday, five days after his Republican Party lost elections in Virginia, New Jersey and elsewhere largely because of voter discontent with... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3332401/trump-says-hell-give-americans-us2000-tariff-dividend-whats-catch?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3332401/trump-says-hell-give-americans-us2000-tariff-dividend-whats-catch?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:01:04 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press More online platforms are giving second-hand shopping a digital upgrade, rolling out features such as live-stream shopping and AI-powered search to make thrifting faster and more exciting. Although choosing second-hand over new is often the more sustainable option, experts say it is not a licence to overconsume. They warn that resale has its limits, since buying more than you need still fuels waste, and shopping online can add emissions from servers and shipping, thrifted or not. Here is how... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/3327724/love-second-hand-clothing-how-find-quality-pieces-and-shop-sustainably?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/3327724/love-second-hand-clothing-how-find-quality-pieces-and-shop-sustainably?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 04 Oct 2025 08:15:08 +0000 Tom Hussain Tom Hussain A week after Israel bombed Qatar, Saudi Arabia has signed a mutual defence pact with Pakistan in what analysts say will be an extension of Islamabad’s nuclear umbrella over the Gulf kingdom and is a clear signal to the United States for failing to intercept Israeli missiles during the attack. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed the agreement in Riyadh on Wednesday, which stipulated that “any aggression against either country shall be... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3325972/saudi-arabia-pakistan-pact-sends-nuclear-umbrella-signal-over-israels-attack-qatar?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3325972/saudi-arabia-pakistan-pact-sends-nuclear-umbrella-signal-over-israels-attack-qatar?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Sep 2025 06:59:00 +0000 Alcott Wei Alcott Wei Some Chinese universities appear to have distanced themselves from a US researcher invited to their events, after social media users in China took aim at his past remarks on Xinjiang and demanded an explanation from the institutes. The latest in the line of fire is Central South University in Changsha, Hunan province. It has faced a barrage of online criticism since last Tuesday for having hosted Darius Longarino, who is a research scholar at Yale Law School and senior fellow at its Paul Tsai... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3322107/xinjiang-posts-yale-researcher-put-chinese-universities-line-online-fire?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3322107/xinjiang-posts-yale-researcher-put-chinese-universities-line-online-fire?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 17 Aug 2025 10:02:21 +0000 Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma China has launched its first national childcare subsidy scheme in an effort to help reverse a long-term decline in its population, which fell for a third consecutive year in 2024, to 1.4083 billion. Under the scheme, rolled out on Monday, parents will receive 3,600 yuan (US$502) annually for every child born on or after January 1, 2025, until they turn three. The subsidy is payable whether the child is their first, second or third. Children born before January 1, 2025 but still under three years... https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3319968/chinas-us500-year-baby-subsidy-boost-population?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3319968/chinas-us500-year-baby-subsidy-boost-population?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 29 Jul 2025 09:00:09 +0000 Sumnima Kandangwa Sumnima Kandangwa Saturday Night Live’s Marcello Hernández, who went viral in 2024 for his sketch persona Domingo, recently made his red carpet debut with his girlfriend, Ana Amelia Batlle Cabral. Hernández, who previously sparked romance rumours with celebrities like Sabrina Carpenter and Kaia Gerber, attended the New York premiere of the upcoming Adam Sandler-led film Happy Gilmore 2 with Batlle on July 21. This is the first time since the 27-year-old comedian joined the cast of SNL in 2022 that he has... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3319275/meet-snl-star-marcello-hernandezs-girlfriend-ana-amelia-batlle-cabral-he-reportedly-dated-sabrina?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3319275/meet-snl-star-marcello-hernandezs-girlfriend-ana-amelia-batlle-cabral-he-reportedly-dated-sabrina?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 23 Jul 2025 11:00:14 +0000 Alex Lo Alex Lo There is much to be thankful for this year if you are one of the academic bosses who run the University of Toronto. You might especially appreciate the return of Donald Trump to the White House, even as he has threatened to annex your country and make it America’s 51st state. In March, it was revealed that three superstar academics and specialists on fascism at Yale – the historians and couple Marci Shore and Timothy Snyder, and the philosopher Jason Stanley – have taken up senior positions at... https://www.scmp.com/news/us/politics/article/3317939/warning-past-about-united-states-today?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/us/politics/article/3317939/warning-past-about-united-states-today?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:33:25 +0000