Susan Ernst says she feels closest to God while spending time in nature.
“When I say nature, I don’t mean the wilderness,” said Ernst, a horticulturist and artist, while seated in the barn at the Yale Landscape Lab. “Right here is nature. I grew up in...
Over the course of a two-hour video testimony describing her experiences during the Holocaust, survivor Liubov’ N. occasionally breaks into song.
Liubov’ shares songs that she wrote with her fellow prisoners at a series of three labor camps located north...
At Monte Albán, a pre-Columbian archaeological site in Oaxaca, Mexico, the artist Anni Albers encountered ancient jewelry composed of stones and shells.
The artifacts inspired Albers to make jewelry out of ordinary materials. She believed the process of...
Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American woman to earn a medical degree, is not a household name. Neither is Roger Arliner Young, the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in zoology, nor Vera Rubin, a physicist who discovered evidence...
A small late 15th-century oil painting portrays two kneeling men facing each other. The figures are framed together, but their quality is worlds apart.
The man on the left appears slightly off-kilter. The positioning of his legs is difficult to discern...
Since emerging a decade ago, Bitcoin and other digitally based cryptocurrencies have captured the imaginations of tech wizards, Wall Street bankers, and investors of all stripes.
Proponents argue that cryptocurrencies, which are decentralized and function...
A new Yale-based research initiative is developing the science needed to scale-up promising anti-poverty programs so that they can benefit the greatest number of people.
The Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale, or Y-RISE, brings together...