About 9,500 years ago, a community of hunter-gatherers in central Africa cremated a small woman on an open pyre at the base of Mount Hora, a prominent natural landmark in what is now northern Malawi, ...
Yale @ Climate Week NYC 2025 In September, hundreds of members of the Yale community convened in New York for Climate Week NYC — including for a two-day program at the Yale Club of New York City — ...
In his new book “Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire” (Basic Books), Yale professor Eckart Frahm offers a comprehensive history of the ancient civilization (circa 2025 BCE to 609 ...
A new study led by Yale University confirms a long-held theory about the last great mass extinction event in history and how it affected Earth’s oceans. The findings may also answer questions about ...
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is automating tasks that once were the sole domain of human beings. AI-powered machines are diagnosing heart conditions, predicting the weather, and even ...
Dinée Dorame ’15, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, was a junior at Yale when the Native American Cultural Center (NACC) opened in its own building on High Street back in the fall of 2013. Before that, ...
Yale physicists have uncovered hints of a time crystal — a form of matter that “ticks” when exposed to an electromagnetic pulse — in the last place they expected: a crystal you might find in a child’s ...
Yale University on Thursday announced plans for a historic series of infrastructure investments that would transform the face and trajectory of its School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) and ...
Academics used to tease paleontologists, saying that while dinosaurs appeal to children, they won’t answer the important evolutionary questions. Yale’s John Ostrom (1928-2005) proved them wrong. Fifty ...
Well before the rise of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other tech behemoths, philosopher Luciano Floridi contemplated the ethical and conceptual implications of the information age, producing work that ...
In 1945, Grand Rapids, Michigan, made history — as the first city in the world to add small amounts of fluoride to its public water supply. At the time, studies showed communities with higher levels ...
Scientists in recent years have developed ways to measure biological age by tracking chemical changes in DNA that occur naturally as people age but occur at different times in different people. These ...