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 ...

In separate articles published recently by The Geological Society of London, Yale geologists David Evans, R. Damian Nance, and their colleagues debate the existence of Pannotia, a supercontinent that ...

With record-breaking heat waves gripping many regions of the U.S. and unprecedented floods wreaking havoc from China to Germany, the existential threat of climate change has once again risen to the ...

This story originally appeared in Yale Engineering magazine. The law can be a complicated thing, even for seemingly simple matters. Wondering if the oak tree in your front yard is in violation of ...

In 1945, Grand Rapids, Michigan, made history — as the first city in the world to add small amounts of fluoride to its public water supply. At the time, studies showed communities with higher levels ...

Rates of self-reported cognitive disability among U.S. adults are on the increase, driven largely by a surprising jump among young adults ages 18 to 39, according to a new Yale study. In their ...

Despite broad support in the United States for reshaping policing, movements to “defund” or “abolish” police departments generate strong public opposition. The resistance is largely due to discomfort ...

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 ...

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 ...

Present and future students at Yale University’s drama school will no longer pay tuition, thanks to a landmark $150 million gift from entertainment executive and philanthropist David Geffen, the ...

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, ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is automating tasks that once were the sole domain of human beings. AI-powered machines are diagnosing heart conditions, predicting the weather, and even ...