Yale paleoanthropologist Jessica Thompson regularly organizes and conducts scientific fieldwork in Malawi, a country in southeastern Africa where she and her colleagues discover and analyze evidence of early human activity.
She considers the opportunity...
In the latest edition of Humanitas, a column focused on the arts and humanities at Yale, a lecturer of investigative journalism in Yale’s Department of English wins a Pulitzer Prize for her own public-interest journalism; a professor in the practice in...
Two Yale faculty members have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Sociologist and physician Nicholas Christakis and chemist James Mayer are...
A new study co-authored by Yale sociologist Nicholas A. Christakis demonstrates that tapping into the dynamics of friendship significantly improves the possibility that a community will adopt public health and other interventions aimed at improved human...
Seven members of the Yale faculty who have made important contributions across a range of fields, including neuroscience, public policy, medicine, theater, and mathematics, are among the 250 accomplished individuals elected new members of the American...
The universe is awash in sound.
So declared teams of scientists from around the world last summer. As reported in Smithsonian Magazine, the scientists said they’d discovered a new kind of gravitational wave that creates a constant, ambient hum. The...
A new study co-authored by a Yale economist provides evidence that insufficient antitrust enforcement in the U.S. hospital sector is contributing to reduced competition and higher prices for hospital care.
The study, conducted in collaboration with...