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 ...

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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, ...

Yale ISM alum earns second place in national organ improvisation competition Jul 17, 2026 From Institute of Sacred Music Three Questions ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

When he first visited the newly refurbished Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) at 320 York St. — known until recently as the Hall of Graduate Studies — faculty member Kevin van Bladel’s thoughts returned to ...

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 ...

As the leading cause of viral gastroenteritis worldwide, norovirus is an all too familiar ailment. Its telltale digestive upset — not to mention its reputation for being notoriously contagious — has ...

Machu Picchu, the famous 15th-century Inca site in southern Peru, is up to several decades older than previously thought, according to a new study led by Yale archaeologist Richard Burger. Burger and ...