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The search for a rare physics event gets some noise cancelling headphones

Deep under a mountain in Italy, researchers continue to push the boundaries of science with an experiment that could rewrite the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Standard “double beta decay” is ...
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Noted First Amendment lawyer to lead Yale Law Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic

David A. Schulz ’78 J.D., a leading First Amendment lawyer who has defended the rights of journalists and news organizations for more than 30 years, has been named clinical lecturer in law and ...
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School of the Environment

YSE experts to share pathways to progress at NYC Climate Week Sep 17, 2025 From School of the Environment More news from School of the Environment ...
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Analysis unlocks secret of the Vinland Map — it’s a fake

The Vinland Map, once hailed as the earliest depiction of the New World, is awash in 20th-century ink. A team of conservators and conservation scientists at Yale has found compelling new evidence for ...
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Yale to increase undergraduate enrollment

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.
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Partisan media? Cable viewers shift attitudes after changing the channel

Millions of Americans count right-leaning Fox News as their primary source of information about politics and current events. A new working paper co-authored by Yale political scientist Joshua Kalla ...
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Cold virus replicates better at cooler temperatures

The common cold virus can reproduce itself more efficiently in the cooler temperature found inside the nose than at core body temperature, according to a new Yale-led study. This finding may confirm ...
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Yale launches Center for Civic Thought to promote thoughtful discourse

Immediately after the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, a group of 10 Yale students from a variety of backgrounds convened on campus to discuss the unthinkable. Brought together by the university’s ...
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With gift from David Geffen, Yale’s drama school goes tuition-free

Present and future students at Yale University’s drama school will no longer pay tuition, thanks to a landmark $150 million gift from entertainment executive and philanthropist David Geffen, the ...
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With new $140+ million Yale pledge, Yale, New Haven promote growth, economy

Yale University and the City of New Haven today reconfirmed their historic, three-century partnership for a new generation, announcing a six-year commitment that increases the university’s annual ...
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Elijah Anderson on the burden of being Black in white spaces

Since the end of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, large numbers of Black people have made their way into settings previously occupied exclusively by whites. They have received mixed ...
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Assyria: Chronicling the rise and fall of the world’s first empire

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 ...