Social Science
Terrain Held the Blueprint: How Landscape Accessibility Built China’s First Cities
New research shows that terrain-derived accessibility structured Neolithic settlement systems in pre-state China, laying the spatial foundations for later cities.
New Evidence on the Macroeconomic Effects of Carbon Taxes
For decades, the carbon tax has been held up by economists as the cleanest instrument in the climate policy toolkit....
Ninety-Three Percent of Dhaka Slum Residents Live in Multidimensional Poverty
A new survey of 3,322 people in Dhaka's slums using a four-dimensional Alkire-Foster index finds that 93 percent of residents...
Morality, voices, and self at the edge of reality: a narrative analysis of delusional experiences and pathways to care in schizophrenia
Schizophrenia has long been described through the language of symptoms, scales, and diagnostic checklists, yet a growing body of research...
Brief, Empowerment-Based Programs Show Modest Gains for Trans and Non-Binary Mental Health
A comprehensive meta-analysis of 68 studies finds that brief, empowerment- and skills-based interventions produce small but significant improvements in mental...
Rotman organizational scholar András Tilcsik elected to Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars
University of Toronto Rotman School professor András Tilcsik has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New...
China’s Two-Child Policy Deepens Household Energy Poverty Struggles
China's historic decision to abandon its decades-long one-child restriction was celebrated worldwide as a victory for reproductive freedom and a...
Rwanda’s pre-primary education infrastructure varies across and within districts
In what researchers describe as one of the most detailed portraits ever assembled of early childhood education in a low-income...
Divorce hits housing differently for men and women in couples
When a marriage ends, the house where a couple built their life together becomes one of the most consequential battlegrounds...
Multimodal LLMs show geographic and perceptual bias across 200 cities
The rapid global spread of multimodal large language models has raised a deceptively simple question: when these systems look at...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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