In a new book, Yale historian and Edmund S. Morgan Professor of History Mark Peterson warns of a widening disconnect between modern American society and its Constitution.

Yale researchers used fossilized teeth in ocean sediments to trace the origins of Cyclothone, a deep-sea fish genus, back at least 55 million years. The lead author Karinne Tennenbaum, a 2026 Yale graduate, worked on the study as an undergraduate researcher in the lab of Pincelli Hull, Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Francesco Casetti, Sterling Professor of Humanities and Film and Media Studies, has been appointed as a member of the International Jury for the Eighty–Third Venice International Film Festival, reflecting both Casetti’s longstanding influence on film and media studies and the international prominence of Yale’s Film and Media Studies program.

An analysis of the centuries-old remains of two Medici brothers revealed genetic evidence of malaria infections, settling a long-standing mystery and illuminating the deadly pathogen’s past. The study was led by senior author Serena Tucci, Assistant Professor of Anthropology; Alexander Ochoa, Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Department of Anthropology; and Adalgisa Caccone, Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.

Luciano Floridi, John K. Castle Professor in the Practice of Cognitive Science and Director of the Digital Ethics Center, has been awarded the 2026 Strega International Non-Fiction Prize for his recent work on AI and information ethics.

A new Yale-led study, part of a wider research program led by Martha Muñoz, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, finds that woodland salamanders are far more evolutionarily diverse than they appear. The findings challenge decades of assumptions about how species adapt to changing environments.

A new exhibit at the Peabody Museum explores assistant professor of Egyptology Victoria Almansa-Villatoro’s study of thousands of papyri fragments from the Old Kingdom era of Ancient Egypt.

Kabeche, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, was recently interviewed about her career and research by the Journal of Cell Science for its "Cell Scientist to watch" column.

Lu, Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science, was named to the list for his work "pioneer[ing] a paradigm shift in Scientific Machine Learning (SciML)."

Yale Medicine Magazine recently profiled the lab of Steven Tang, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and the work his team is doing to unravel the mysteries of sperm and pave the way for new fertility and contraceptive therapies.