Frances Pollock was drawn to the arts from a young age. She found that the arts — especially music — allowed her to make sense of the contradictions, and even messiness, of life. “Growing up, I found ...
Robert G. Shulman, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Yale School of Medicine (YSM), died on Jan. 11, 2026. He was ...
‘We’re in a better place’: Has the time for a unified global carbon market finally arrived? Dec 16, 2025 13 min read Year in review ...
British Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA) describes his new work, “Mrs Pinckney and the Emancipated Birds of South Carolina,” which was created especially for the exhibition “Enlightened ...
Yale’s endowment earned a 0.8% investment return, net of fees, for the year ending June 30, 2022, earning $266 million in investment gains. After $1.6 billion of spending distributions to the ...
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 ...
Friends tend to share common interests, tastes, lifestyles, and other traits, but a new Yale-led study demonstrates that similarities among buddies can also include the makeup of the microbes lining ...
One-third of people older than 85 in the United States are estimated to live with Alzheimer’s disease today, according to the National Institute on Aging. The condition’s characteristic long, slow ...
Caligula, the notoriously erratic Roman emperor known for his bloodthirsty cruelty, probably also possessed a nerd’s knowledge of medicinal plants, according to a new Yale study. The study, by the ...
Machu Picchu, the famous 15th-century Inca site in southern Peru, is up to several decades older than previously thought, according to a new study led by Yale archaeologist Richard Burger. Burger and ...
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 ...
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, ...