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 ...

A long-held theory suggests that the asteroid strike that killed off non-avian dinosaurs — and most large marine predators — 66 million years ago created an ecological opportunity that spurred the ...

Yale research saves lives, bolsters national interests, and strengthens the economy. In countless communities across America, it serves infants born with heart defects, prevents and slows the ...

Conventional wisdom holds that targeting the best-connected individuals in a social network is an effective way to nudge a wider group of people to change their behavior. For example, public-health ...

What the immune system does when you’re not sick — and why it matters for aging Jun 26, 2026 From School of Medicine Innovation ...

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 ...

Stephen A. (Steve) Ross, a former Yale professor whose work shaped the development of the field of financial economics, died on March 3. He was 73 years old. Ross is perhaps best known as the inventor ...

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 ...

Naomi Schor, one of the foremost scholars of French literature and critical theory and one of the pioneer feminist theorists of her generation, died suddenly in New Haven, Connecticut, on December 2, ...

Scientists in recent years have developed ways to measure biological age by tracking chemical changes in DNA that occur naturally as people age but occur at different times in different people. These ...

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, ...

Henricus Martellus, a German cartographer working in Florence in the late 15th century, produced a highly detailed map of the known world. According to experts, there is strong evidence that ...