Social Science

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...

Cooperation may depend on more than whether people help or refuse to help. A new theoretical study led by Kobe...

A nationwide study of more than 3,300 mother–child pairs has found no significant association between prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides...

A suicide attempt by someone in an adolescent’s or young adult’s social network may be more than a traumatic event...

A new brain-mapping system designed to personalize treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has received clearance from the U.S. Food...

Tardive dyskinesia, the involuntary movement disorder associated with long-term exposure to antipsychotic medication, is being reframed as more than a...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts—Aging does not affect every part of the brain in the same way. While systems responsible for working memory,...

Canada’s blood supply is confronting a paradox: patients with sickle cell disease urgently need transfusions from a more ethnically diverse...

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has honored a broad group of scientists, physicians and educators whose work...