Social Science

An ordinary walk down a city street may be doing more than guiding people from one destination to another. The...

A new study is challenging one of the most comforting assumptions in urban climate design: that adding vegetation to dense...

For decades, one of the most familiar ideas in migration science has been that distance acts like a brake. People...

Archaeologists have uncovered two Roman-period pottery kilns at the Asten archaeological site near Burg, in the municipality of Hannersdorf, Austria,...

Failure is often treated as the essential teacher of human performance. A missed target, an incorrect decision, or an unsuccessful...

Bentham Science Publishers has announced the launch of Current Artificial Intelligence, a new international, peer-reviewed journal focused on research shaping...

Researchers have found that the way children speak about stressful experiences may reveal future mental health risks years before a...

Mathematicians have formulated an impossibility theorem suggesting that no electoral system can perfectly satisfy three demands at once: preserving every...

Childhood anxiety disorders affect millions of young people, disrupting learning, friendships, family life and emotional development. For some children, anxiety...

High-salt diets are widely recognized as a major risk factor for hypertension, but their effects extend beyond the cardiovascular system....