In his 37-volume “Natural History,” first published in 77 C.E., the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder explored the minutiae of everyday life. The encyclopedic work describes the places where people ...

What do underwater navigation, drug safety, and air traffic control have in common? Each creates challenges that can be solved with quantum science and technology. In Connecticut, the unique ...

This year, over 60 faculty joined Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the largest cohort to join in more than two centuries. In this video, three new arrivals — Sarit Kattan Gribetz, Tyler ...

The human brain undergoes significant development during the final prenatal months and through the first year of life. And while scientists have begun to map the developmental trajectories of this ...

Twice a day while Yale College is in session, the bells in Harkness Tower ring out across campus, a sonorous echo above the gothic rooftops and shady college courtyards. For generations, the bells ...

Academic conferences are part and parcel of campus life at Yale, but it’s not every day that one opens with a greeting from a global popstar. Such was the case when a recent conference on the social ...

Human activity and climate change are driving an acceleration of extinction rates globally, with hundreds of thousands of species under imminent threat of dying out, research shows. As an ...

Steven Lamoreaux, an atomic physicist whose research has contributed to our understanding of the dark matter that is bound to our galaxy, was recently appointed the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics ...

Philipp Strack, a scholar of microeconomic theory who has achieved key advances in the field of game-theory and behavioral economics, was recently appointed the Cowles Foundation Professor of ...

Geneticists looking inside the nuclear genome for mutations that contribute to disease have long relied on a principal known as constraint modeling, which allows researchers to assess the degree of ...