Yale anthropologist David Watts watched “Chimp Empire,” the recent four-part Netflix docuseries on the Ngogo chimpanzee community in Uganda, with an informed perspective: He has spent decades studying the chimps featured on the show.
In 1995, Watts...
Yale will create a new Center for Geospatial Solutions (YCGS) to enhance the university’s research, training, and engagement infrastructure in the rapidly evolving areas of geospatial science, data, and analysis, university leaders have announced....
Pinpointing when exactly animals first appeared on Earth is a bit like finding a needle in a very old, planet-sized haystack — but a new study has narrowed the search a bit.
Estimates for the arrival of Earth’s first animals — tiny, soft-bodied marine...
Turning the pages of a manuscript copy of the Maʿrifetnāme, an 18th-century encyclopedia authored by the Ottoman scholar and Sufi poet İbrāhīm Ḥaḳḳī Efendi, can lead readers to seventh heaven and the depths of hell.
A copy of the beautifully illuminated...
At a recent hearing of the U.S. Senate’s Finance Committee, Sen. Ron Wyden asked Yale health economist Zack Cooper for his insights into how hospital mergers affect the country’s workforce.
“It strikes me that, for workers, consolidation can mean layoffs...
In the latest edition of Humanitas, a column focused on the arts and humanities at Yale, we introduce you to an alum, and now critic, at Yale School of Architecture whose Brooklyn firm was recently recognized as one of the world’s most innovative emerging...
This month, Insights & Outcomes is coming at you with all the feels — from the neurological underpinnings of vicarious thrills and the biological network that influences cravings, to the brain’s connections to physical frailty and the queasiness that...