For Yale scholar Hazel Carby, one of the gratifications of winning the British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding is that this year’s honor recognizes the importance of work in ethnic and racial studies, which has previously...
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...
Money might not buy love, but a new study suggests that it is more strongly related to happiness than some people think — particularly when people compare their income with someone else’s.
Writing in the journal Psychological Bulletin, researchers...
Insects transmit diseases, destroy crops, and pollinate flowers — behaviors that are both beneficial and detrimental for humankind — all thanks to an in-flight guidance system driven by a well-honed sense of smell. These tasks are complicated because...
As millions of voters cast ballots across the U.S. on Election Day, many Yale students opted to cast their ballots in their collegiate home town of New Haven. For many students, it was their first chance to vote in a presidential election. On this...