Social Science

Depression in later life is often described as a mental-health problem, but a new study in Nature Mental Health draws...

For refugees, integration does not end when the first job is secured or when a new passport is issued. It...

Being single is often framed as a temporary condition to escape or a social status defined by what is missing....

Education, Health and Care Needs Assessments (EHCNAs), intended to identify the support required by children and young people with special...

Across Japan, many small and medium-sized cities are confronting a future defined not by recovery, but by continued population loss...

Urban researchers are calling for a fundamental shift in how cities are understood, modeled and governed as population change, climate...

A five-year study in Japan has found that vaccine conspiracy beliefs are not a single, uniform phenomenon. Instead, they appear...

As trees vanish from urban neighborhoods, the loss may be affecting far more than a city’s appearance. A longitudinal study...

For military personnel and veterans who carry the psychological consequences of having killed during war, a new study published in...

Newborn German cockroaches may be learning the identity of their social group through an unlikely source: feces. A study from...