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Previous research has suggested that partisan media affects voting behavior, but it is unclear exactly how it influences people’s views. The experiment provided evidence that partisan media outlets, ...
By comparing the results from both PCR tests and screenings for the immunological biomarker in more than 1,000 people (including children and adults, some who had a viral infection, and some who did ...
For centuries, annual summer flooding of the Nile was instrumental for agricultural production in ancient Egypt, said Moeller. Although the flood cycles naturally varied, archaeological evidence ...
Acquired by Yale in the mid-1960s, the purported 15th-century map depicts a pre-Columbian “Vinlanda Insula,” a section of North America’s coastline southwest of Greenland. While earlier studies had ...
How did you become interested in Assyria as a scholarly topic? Eckart Frahm: I first became interested in Mesopotamia when I was in high school. I took some Hebrew, simply because I wanted to learn a ...
Nance: The idea of the existence of a supercontinent about 600 million years ago was first proposed (but not named) on the basis of the fossil record in 1970, and for the following 35 years or so the ...
The house was conceived and constructed by Yale School of Architecture students as part of the Jim Vlock First Year Building Project. The annual project, a core element of the curriculum in the school ...
by the numbers: The Yale Engineering mace “This project was meant to be about Yale and by Yale,” said Eldred. “Yale University has some of the most talented artisans in the country — students and ...
A prodigiously productive scholar, Merriman received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Scholarly Distinction from the American Historical Association in 2017 in recognition of his contributions to ...
For the study, the researchers used a randomized-controlled trial of 105 Syrian refugee women from poor households to evaluate the effects of participating in We Love Reading, a program developed in ...
Last fall, the Yale Peabody Museum had a surplus of cigar boxes — dozens of them. It’s not that folks there were lighting up stogies left and right, though. The boxes had served a scientific purpose: ...