Yale undergraduate Maya Juman spent four weeks this summer at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) cleaning up a scientific mess concerning a species of tree shrew.
Juman, a junior majoring in ecology and evolutionary biology, is...
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...
The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History is having a gold rush — one in which prospectors can gaze at glittering specimens of radiating golden leaves.
An exhibit opening at the museum on Saturday, April 14, will showcase 23 pieces of California gold,...
The Vinland Map, a source of curiosity and controversy since it entered the public consciousness a half-century ago, is spread out on a table at Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH) underneath a geodesic-dome cage.
An array of...
Digital preservationists at Yale University Library are building a shareable “emulation as a service” infrastructure to resurrect thousands of obsolete software programs and ensure that the information produced on them will be kept intact and made easily...
A new study has exposed the common treeshrew, a small and skittish mammal that inhabits the tropical forests of Southeast Asia, as an ecogeographical rule breaker.
According to the study — published in the journal Ecology and Evolution — Tupaia glis, the...