Standing under a hot sun with a stainless-steel shovel in hand, Yale President Peter Salovey joined state and local leaders on June 7 to break ground on 101 College Street, an ambitious development project that will bolster New Haven’s rising status as an...
Yale University has announced it will be an anchor tenant at 101 College Street in New Haven, a key project in the city’s effort to become a national hub for the life sciences industry. The university also is supporting a biotech incubator to be located...
Mastery of fire has given humans dominance over the natural world. A Yale-led study provides the earliest evidence to date of ancient humans significantly altering entire ecosystems with flames.
The study, published on May 5 in the journal Science...
The Peabody Museum’s revamped collections facility on Yale’s West Campus is a browser’s paradise.
Its rows of compact shelving house the museum’s anthropology and history of science and technology collections, more than 1.5 million items in all. Turn a...
Mariana Di Giacomo regularly peers into the menacing orange eye of a Tyrannosaurus rex. She checks the ancient predator’s dagger-like teeth and inspects his grayish scales.
As the Peabody Museum of Natural History undergoes a full-building renovation, the...
Tropical Asia and Africa are the only regions on Earth that retain diverse populations of large, land-dwelling mammals, such as elephants, rhinos, and big cats. A new study co-authored by Yale researcher Advait M. Jukar suggests that the persistence of...
The fossil remains of several small mammals discovered in tightly packed clusters in western Montana provide the earliest evidence of social behavior in mammals, according to a new study co-authored by a Yale scientist.
The fossils, which are about 75.5...
As the new chair of Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH), Paul Messier oversees research at the intersection of science and the humanities.
Established at Yale’s West Campus in 2013, the IPCH aims to preserve and interpret...
The Stegosaurus that inhabited the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History’s Great Hall since 1925 has migrated to Canada. And it won’t be long before several of the spikey-tailed herbivore’s New Haven neighbors, including Brontosaurus, join it north of...