When Anthony Acciavatti graduated college in 2004, he set an ambitious goal for himself: map the entire Ganges River Basin. The Ganges River flows from the Himalayas across India’s northern plains and ...
Researchers at Yale, Google, and the University of California-Santa Barbara have created a device that simulates the quantum “tunneling” behavior of protons that occurs in chemistry, a process so ...
Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) has announced the 2026 recipients of its Graduate Mentor Awards, given to four faculty members annually in recognition of their exceptional advising ...
About 20 years ago, one of Katherine McKenzie’s colleagues asked her if she was interested in performing forensic medical evaluations (FME) for asylum seekers. “I didn’t know much about the field, but ...
Out in Beinecke Plaza recently, under a bright sun and the intent stares of more than 100 people, you could cut the tension with a knight. Or a hanging rook. After two weekends of strategic gambits, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The human brain is the source and conduit of all ideas, beliefs, and dreams. It drives us to produce art, literature, and science, to feel and describe love, to invent for survival and diversion alike ...
Yale College, the undergraduate school of Yale University, will increase its class size by 100 students per year beginning this fall with the entering Class of 2029, university leaders said Tuesday.
The first thing people typically know about the father-son team of Kevin Czinger ’82, ’87 J.D and Lukas Czinger ’17 is the car. Known as the Czinger 21C, it’s sleek, sporty, and extremely fast. And it ...
The Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Here’s a look at the man who founded the School of Medicine department that eventually became YSPH. In 1915 when ...
Wilfred M. Voynich, a rare-book dealer based in London, purchased a cache of medieval manuscripts from the Jesuit order in 1912. The transaction was conducted in secret. Its details remain unclear.