Astronomers at Yale and the University of Hong Kong have proposed a new strategy for finding the universe’s first stars — by looking for signs of their final, fiery flares.
For years, scientists have searched for direct evidence of “Population III” stars...
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...