Thanks to some astrophysical sleuthing, researchers have pinpointed an early galactic merger that helped shape the Milky Way.
The merger — a collision, actually — happened 11.5 billion years ago. That’s when a small galaxy called Gaia-Enceladus slammed...
Alice Y. Kaplan, newly named as Sterling Professor of French, is a leading scholar of 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone literature and history.
The Sterling Professorship is the highest honor bestowed on Yale faculty.
Kaplan was recently...
The vitriolic political spats erupting daily on social media and cable news and in Congress can leave the impression that Republicans and Democrats blindly hate each other. But a new study by Yale political scientists suggests that policy disagreements,...
Volcanic activity did not play a direct role in the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs, according to an international, Yale-led team of researchers. It was all about the asteroid.
In a break from a number of other recent studies, Yale...
Fuzzy terminology, faulty methods, and funky data have plagued recent scholarship on the evolution of monogamy among mammals, according to a pair of studies co-authored by Yale anthropologist Eduardo Fernandez-Duque.
Fernandez-Duque and his co-authors,...
“Art gives us visions into the future, and music makes us feel where we want to go. It is often artists or musicians who help us to feel that which we have not learned how to say. It is really art that shows us the way.”
Civil Rights icon Angela Davis...
People who had recently used psychedelics such as psilocybin report a sustained improvement in mood and feeling closer to others after the high has worn off, shows a new Yale study published the week of Jan. 20 in the journal Proceedings of the National...
In 2011, China’s Supreme Court dealt a blow to the property rights of women by ruling that family homes purchased before marriage automatically belong to the registered buyer upon divorce, historically the husband.
Previously, under China’s 1980...