A new study coauthored by Claire Bowern, Professor of Linguistics, suggests that tens of thousands of languages were spoken between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago.

With the recent release of Christopher Nolan’s long-awaited film adaptation, Benedek Kruchió, Assistant Professor of Classics, considers how the “poem of multitudes” has been adapted and reimagined over millennia.

Yale researchers, led by principal investigator and Professor of Earth and Planetary Science Noah Planavsky, have developed a new, less expensive method for remediating “forever chemicals” from farmlands that would also remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Two Yale researchers – Sarah Demers, Professor of Physics and Chair of the Department of Physics, and Farren Isaacs, Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and of Biomedical Engineering – will integrate AI technologies with scientific investigations through awards from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission initiative.

A new study by senior author Thomas Near, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and lead author and graduate student Chase Brownstein, reveals that tunas evolved their signature size, speed, and warm-bloodedness gradually over 50 million years rather than in rapid response to the mass extinction that ended the age of dinosaurs.

Yale researchers have helped to describe a new species of Colobus monkey living high in the forest canopies of the Democratic Republic of Congo. For the study, co-authors Julia Arenson, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology and the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, and Eric Sargis, Professor of Anthropology, collaborated with researchers from the Lukuru Wildlife Research Foundation and Lomami National Park in DRC, Florida Atlantic University, and Hunter College of the City University of New York.

A study of a massive dataset of real-world AI consumption, co-authored by Aleh Tsyvinski, the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics, shows on how AI is affecting businesses, workers, and financial markets.

A new study co-written by Eckart Frahm, the John M. Musser Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, provides evidence that the ancient kingdom of Assyria had three more kings than previously thought.

Fermi’s “Golden Rule” is a formula that connects theoretical quantum mechanics and what scientists observe in experiments, yet it is often misapplied. A new study by senior author Nir Navon, Associate Professor of Physics, along with other Yale physicists, put this foundational formula through its paces.

Sunil Amrith, Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History and Vice Provost for International Affairs, was recently named to the 2026 class of “Great Immigrants, Great Americans” by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation