In 1562, Cardinal Giovanni de Medici, a scion of the dynastic family that dominated politics and banking in Tuscany during the Renaissance, died of malaria. Twenty-five years later, his older brother, ...

This video features Paul Cleary, dean of the Yale School of Public Health; Rafael Perez-Escamilla, director of the Global Health Concentration at the school; and Unni Karunakara, former International ...

Judy Collins Songwriter and performer Judy Collins will perform at Yale University September 20, 2006, at 7 p.m. in a benefit concert—“An Evening with Judy Collins”—to support Women’s Health Research ...

Last fall, three esteemed Yale historians teamed up to teach “America at 250: A History,” which explored the nature of American identity from 1776 to the present, as part of the 2025 DeVane Lecture ...

Yale College Graduate School of Arts & Sciences School of Architecture School of Art Divinity School David Geffen School of Drama School of Engineering & Applied Science School of the Environment ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During its 325th graduation ceremony on Monday, Yale University awarded honorary degrees to eight individuals whose achievements in their fields have benefited the common good. This year’s honorary ...

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 ...

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot — the biggest windstorm in the solar system — is shrinking, and a new study may help explain why. Located in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere, the Great Red Spot is a swirling, ...