In this summer series, Yale faculty from across the university recommend at least three works to dip into during the summer months — whether a beach read, a perennial favorite, or an important new ...

Blood Falls, a mysterious, red-colored waterfall that flows from the edge of an Antarctic glacier, has finally revealed some of its biological secrets, more than a century after its discovery. A ...

The story of Yale University is inseparable from the story of the United States. When colonial leaders signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, proclaiming their separation from Great Britain, ...

In 1562, Cardinal Giovanni de Medici, a scion of the dynastic family that dominated politics and banking in Tuscany during the Renaissance, died of malaria. Twenty-five years later, his older brother, ...

Primordial black holes created in the first instants after the Big Bang — tiny ones smaller than the head of a pin and supermassive ones covering billions of miles — may account for all of the dark ...

In medieval Europe, a rivalry between two assertive cultures — Christians and Jews, who both considered themselves “God’s Chosen People” — gave rise to modern antisemitism, argues Yale’s Ivan G.

Two Yale researchers have received funding awards from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Genesis Mission, a national initiative that aims to build the world’s most powerful integrated science ...

It might soon be “game over” for the video game controller. Yale researchers have developed a new kind of brain-computer interface (BCI) that lets humans play video games directly with their brains.

Rey Villaseñor recently dashed up the stairs at the Yale School of Management like he owned the place — which is a good sign the Warrior-Scholar Project (WSP) is accomplishing its mission of helping ...

The #MeToo movement has raised awareness of sexual misconduct and exposed several high-profile cases of predatory behavior by powerful men — and also driven a significant increase in the reporting of ...

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 ...

Yale University’s museums, libraries, and archives contain vast troves of cultural and scientific heritage that fire curiosity and fuel research worldwide. Now there’s a simple new way to make ...