Social Science

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...

When the Roman Empire lost its grip on the West in the fifth century, the change was not simply the...

In the mountainous kingdom of Bhutan, where steep Himalayan slopes, intense monsoon rainfall, and rapidly expanding road networks combine to...