Image Courtesy of Pixabay. In 1903, Yale undergraduate Almer Mayo Newhall wrote on “The Position of the Negro within the Human Family.” The piece opens

Image Courtesy of Wikimedia Sweet, sour, salty, and bitter were long believed to be the four basic human tastes. In the early twentieth century, a

Art Courtesy of Kara Tao. On my desk sits a brain. Until 1984, it was kept in a Brown University neuroscience lab. It’s now found

Image Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives. It is late 1937, and the American Society for the Control of Cancer convenes for a press dinner under

Image Courtesy of Flickr. Since the days of the Manhattan Project, nuclear physicists have concerned themselves with the study of certain atomic nuclei known as

Image Courtesy of Unsplash. Scientists have long known that the chemical structure of a molecule influences its smell. However, it’s still unclear how tiny structural

Photo Courtesy of Liana Talpins. Harper Lowrey (YC ’24) first became fascinated by the wide-ranging implications of science after reading a book with her mom

Image Courtesy of Flickr. “Half of all medical student respondents did not believe that Black patients felt pain the way Whites did. So did a

Image Courtesy of Flickr. In 6,000 B.C.E., North African physicians treated head ailments with trephination—the practice of drilling holes into patients’ skulls without anesthesia. Luckily,

Image Courtesy of Hannah Han. Writer, Copy Editor, News Editor, Features Editor, and eventually Editor-in-Chief: during her time at Yale, Ilana Yurkiewicz (YC ’10) wore