Social Science

For more than a century, scientists have struggled with a deceptively simple question: how bad was that flood? Earthquakes have...

When a young child raises a hand to ask why the sky changes color or where a puddle goes after...

The pursuit of happiness has long been studied through the lens of material conditions, health, and income, but a growing...

The size of the family a woman grows up in continues to shape how many children she wants decades later,...

China's most ambitious effort to cultivate a new generation of basic scientists rests on a powerful promise: that personal brilliance...

Growth mindset training has become one of the most widely adopted interventions in American education, marketed to schools at every...

Italy's persistent north–south divide in institutional quality has just been given its most precise numerical portrait yet. In a study...

Waterlogged melon seeds recovered from a medieval Chinese port are rewriting the story of one of the world's most culturally...

Grandparents, aunts, and uncles who read, play, and explore with young children may be among the most underappreciated forces in...

Family structure has long been one of the most contested topics in the social sciences, but a new study from...