Academics used to tease paleontologists, saying that while dinosaurs appeal to children, they won’t answer the important evolutionary questions.
Yale’s John Ostrom (1928-2005) proved them wrong.
Fifty years ago, in Feb. 1969, Ostrom, then an assistant...
A team of international and local researchers working in Ethiopia have discovered the earliest-known examples of complex stone tools. With sharp edges intentionally made by striking two rocks together, the tools date to between 2.61 and 2.58 million years...
Yale historian Mark Peterson believes that history is best told by abiding by the Golden Rule.
The accurate representation of the past is “a kind of moral science,” says Peterson, the Edmund S. Morgan Professor of History, adding that the age-old adage “...
Yale researchers have figured out how to catch and save Schrödinger’s famous cat, the symbol of quantum superposition and unpredictability, by anticipating its jumps and acting in real time to save it from proverbial doom. In the process, they overturn...
Katerina Clark, Alexander Goncharov, and Laura Nasrallah were appointed to endowed professorships.
Clark, named as the B.E. Bensinger Professor of Comparative Literature and of Slavic Languages and Literatures, focuses her research on Russian, European,...