British Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA) describes his new work, “Mrs Pinckney and the Emancipated Birds of South Carolina,” which was created especially for the exhibition “Enlightened ...

Primordial black holes created in the first instants after the Big Bang — tiny ones smaller than the head of a pin and supermassive ones covering billions of miles — may account for all of the dark ...

With record-breaking heat waves gripping many regions of the U.S. and unprecedented floods wreaking havoc from China to Germany, the existential threat of climate change has once again risen to the ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is automating tasks that once were the sole domain of human beings. AI-powered machines are diagnosing heart conditions, predicting the weather, and even ...

This story originally appeared in Yale Engineering magazine. The law can be a complicated thing, even for seemingly simple matters. Wondering if the oak tree in your front yard is in violation of ...

Despite broad support in the United States for reshaping policing, movements to “defund” or “abolish” police departments generate strong public opposition. The resistance is largely due to discomfort ...

Caligula, the notoriously erratic Roman emperor known for his bloodthirsty cruelty, probably also possessed a nerd’s knowledge of medicinal plants, according to a new Yale study. The study, by the ...

In separate articles published recently by The Geological Society of London, Yale geologists David Evans, R. Damian Nance, and their colleagues debate the existence of Pannotia, a supercontinent that ...

Less than a decade after unveiling the “Map of Life,” a global database that marks the distribution of known species across the planet, Yale researchers have launched an ambitious and perhaps even ...

In his new book “Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire” (Basic Books), Yale professor Eckart Frahm offers a comprehensive history of the ancient civilization (circa 2025 BCE to 609 ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic people across the world have adopted increasingly digital lifestyles. They stream movies, attend Zoom meetings, and sweat through online exercise classes. Many of them, ...

In medieval Europe, a rivalry between two assertive cultures — Christians and Jews, who both considered themselves “God’s Chosen People” — gave rise to modern antisemitism, argues Yale’s Ivan G.