Social Science

Fragmented Neighbourhoods May Quietly Erode Wellbeing, Australian Study Finds The streets where people live may influence how satisfied they feel...

A new study using Poland’s national household budget data has produced a striking estimate of how many people may be...

Birdsong may be one of nature’s most accessible forms of stress relief, but a new study suggests that the benefits...

Cities are often described as resilient when they can absorb a shock and return to normal. But a new study...

Composite indices are everywhere: they compress poverty, health, education, housing, demographics, and other complex realities into a single score that...

In rural India, the birth of a firstborn son can alter far more than a family’s hopes for the future....

Japan’s cities may have found a missing ingredient in the global effort to build a more sustainable urban future: the...

Autism-linked gene CHD8 has been shown to exert its strongest effects during a narrowly defined window of fetal brain development,...

For centuries, Osaka was known as the “Kitchen of the Realm,” a commercial crossroads where food from across Japan flowed...

States are racing to regulate young people’s use of social media, but a new analysis suggests that the policies being...