Pinpointing when exactly animals first appeared on Earth is a bit like finding a needle in a very old, planet-sized haystack — but a new study has narrowed the search a bit.
Estimates for the arrival of Earth’s first animals — tiny, soft-bodied marine...
Turning the pages of a manuscript copy of the Maʿrifetnāme, an 18th-century encyclopedia authored by the Ottoman scholar and Sufi poet İbrāhīm Ḥaḳḳī Efendi, can lead readers to seventh heaven and the depths of hell.
A copy of the beautifully illuminated...
At a recent hearing of the U.S. Senate’s Finance Committee, Sen. Ron Wyden asked Yale health economist Zack Cooper for his insights into how hospital mergers affect the country’s workforce.
“It strikes me that, for workers, consolidation can mean layoffs...
As processional music played, university leaders and faculty entered the graduation hall, dressed in the regalia that signified their academic achievements and fields of study. Then came the seven graduates in their black robes, mortarboards, and blue and...
On a foggy, Friday night recently, with old hip hop songs filling the air and hundreds of happy people taking in the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, a small quantum forest sprouted up on the New Haven Green.
Dozens of illuminated beacons, each...
