Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

Kai T. Erikson, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and American Studies, Emeritus at Yale, whose eloquent voice in defense of human communities changed the understanding of the way ...

In the fall of 1959, Dick Cheney arrived in New Haven from his hometown of Casper, Wyoming, to begin his first semester at Yale College. The future vice president of the United States, who died Nov. 3 ...

In the United States, the incarcerated population is aging. About 15% of incarcerated adults, or approximately 175,000 people, are now 55 years or older. As the incarcerated population ages, cancer ...

The human brain is the source and conduit of all ideas, beliefs, and dreams. It drives us to produce art, literature, and science, to feel and describe love, to invent for survival and diversion alike ...

The Vinland Map, once hailed as the earliest depiction of the New World, is awash in 20th-century ink. A team of conservators and conservation scientists at Yale has found compelling new evidence for ...

The National University of Singapore (NUS) today announced it will establish a provisionally named “New College” that in 2025 will merge Yale-NUS College with NUS’s University Scholars Programme, a ...

Yale College, the undergraduate school of Yale University, will increase its class size by 100 students per year beginning this fall with the entering Class of 2029, university leaders said Tuesday.

In recent years, the words “supply chain issues” have emerged as a familiar explanation for the inability of families and businesses in the United States and elsewhere to access certain goods, from ...

Millions of Americans count right-leaning Fox News as their primary source of information about politics and current events. A new working paper co-authored by Yale political scientist Joshua Kalla ...

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 ...

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 ...