Back in high school, you probably learned about “the plague,” the rare bacterial infection that killed tens of millions of people during what became known as the “Black Death,” a devastating pandemic ...

Yale commemorated its 325 years on Oct. 9 with events that highlighted history and celebrated community. By mid-afternoon, the lawn at Cross Campus filled with faculty and staff, students and their ...

When humans write sentences or solve math problems, they are thinking symbolically — each number, variable, or word is expressed by a symbol. While AI chatbots do not “think” that way, if prompted, ...

Growth in health care spending in the United States is driving increases in health insurance premiums, limiting people’s access to care and contributing to wage reductions, job losses, and rising ...

An infectious disease specialist, Marietta Vazquez has long been fascinated by the interplay of infections and populations — and how human behavior can affect the epidemiology of diseases. “To me, the ...

A linguistic “golden age” flourished between 1,000 to 3,000 years ago when tens of thousands of languages were spoken throughout the world, according to a new study coauthored by Yale linguist Claire ...

Since it was first composed by Homer nearly 3,000 years ago, “The Odyssey” has been reimagined countless times. From Greek drama to contemporary poetry, from Stanley Kubrick to the Coen brothers, the ...

As the climate warms, wildfires are becoming larger, more frequent, and more intense. The smoke now routinely travels hundreds of miles, as was seen when Canadian wildfires this month sent heavy smoke ...

A Yale-led research team has proposed a less expensive — and more environmentally friendly — method for removing certain “forever chemicals” from millions of acres of farmland in the United States and ...

Financial markets are rewarding companies that are well positioned to benefit from widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) with higher returns, according to a new Yale-led analysis of 380 ...

The average life span for Americans hovered around 40 years for the first 100 years of the nation’s existence. But after 1880, breakthroughs in modern medicine and public health resulted in a dramatic ...

The framers of the United States Constitution called for a census to be conducted every 10 years so that legislative representation could be fairly apportioned. But in 1913, for the first time, ...