For two years running, the road to one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics has gone through New Haven.
In both 2020 and 2021, an Abel Prize — considered by many the Nobel Prize of math — was awarded to a Yale-affiliated mathematician: first...
For more than 150 years, Juneteenth celebrations across America have commemorated the end of slavery with cultural and educational events that reflect on the past while pointing toward a more equitable future.
Juneteenth recognizes the anniversary of June...
Diatoms — tiny phytoplankton that are responsible for a fifth of all energy converted into matter by plants — may have become important much earlier in the development of Earth’s ocean ecosystems and carbon cycle than previously thought, according to a...
Three years ago, a team of astronomers led by Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum surprised the scientific community with the discovery of a far-off galaxy that contained little or no dark matter.
The discovery, made using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, had the...
The biggest shark attack in history did not involve humans.
A new study by Earth scientists from Yale and the College of the Atlantic has turned up a massive die-off of sharks roughly 19 million years ago. It came at a period in history when there were...