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 ...

For every math and science accomplishment Sidney Richardson has racked up during her four years at Yale, she’s had an equally memorable experience outside of her comfort zone. Co-authoring a ...

More than a decade ago, Yale chemist Craig Crews founded a biotechnology company in New Haven based on his pioneering research into PROTACs (or PROteolysis TArgeting Chimera), a technology that treats ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During a sunny morning on Florida’s Gulf Coast last month, an 11-year-old golden retriever named Hunter bounded through a pine grove. Snatching his favorite toy, a well-chewed tennis ball attached to ...

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 ...

Since the end of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, large numbers of Black people have made their way into settings previously occupied exclusively by whites. They have received mixed ...

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.

In the late-1970s, a small freshwater fish known as the snail darter made history when its newly acquired status as an endangered species helped to temporarily block construction of the Tellico Dam in ...

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 ...