Back in high school, you probably learned about “the plague,” the rare bacterial infection that killed tens of millions of people during what became known as the “Black Death,” a devastating pandemic ...

When humans write sentences or solve math problems, they are thinking symbolically — each number, variable, or word is expressed by a symbol. While AI chatbots do not “think” that way, if prompted, ...

During her first year as a Yale student, author Leigh Bardugo ’97 was walking home from the post office when she stumbled upon a mysterious, marble building across the street from Grove Street ...

In March 2020, as COVID-19 began to disrupt life in communities across the world, Yale epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina was working at the University of Texas. As the dimensions of the public health ...

For two decades, Yale anthropologist Richard Bribiescas, a leading expert on human evolutionary biology, has collaborated with scholars at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland — the country’s ...

In 2016 psychiatrist Benjamin Kelmendi was treating two patients with severe, treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) at a Connecticut mental health center when the patients abruptly ...

* Member of 1980 U.S. team that did not compete at Moscow Games due to boycott Note: Edward Eagan ’21 is the only athlete in the history of Olympic competition ever to win a Gold Medal in both the ...

An international team of scientists, including Yale researchers, has described a new Colobus monkey species inhabiting high forest canopies in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It is just the ...

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 ...

Michel H. Devoret, the Frederick W. Beinecke Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics at Yale University, who has spent a career probing the intricate dynamics of qubits and quantum information, has won ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic people across the world have adopted increasingly digital lifestyles. They stream movies, attend Zoom meetings, and sweat through online exercise classes. Many of them, ...

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 ...