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June 29, 2015
“For me, it’s exhilarating,” Margaret H. Marshall ’76 J.D., senior trustee of the Yale Corporation, told the Boston Globe on June 26, about the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark...
June 25, 2015
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June 24, 2015
Four junior faculty have been honored for their outstanding scholarship: Nilay Hazari and David Rand have been awarded the Arthur Greer Memorial Prize in the natural or...
June 19, 2015
Easy access to electricity and artificial light triggers a measurable reduction in human sleep, according to a new study of hunter-gatherer communities in Argentina.
June 18, 2015
On a summer evening in 1993, Professor John Ostrom, a paleontologist at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, had a chance to see one of his discoveries spring to life.
June 18, 2015
Using the Hubble Space Telescope’s infrared vision, astronomers have unveiled some of the previously hidden origins of quasars, the brightest objects in the universe. A new...
June 16, 2015
An international team of researchers has discovered traces of methane in Martian meteorites, a possible clue in the search for life on the Red Planet.