Social Sciences

Capital punishment must come to an end. It does not deter crime, is not humane and has no moral or medical basis

Scientific research needs to slow down, not speed up, to produce trustworthy results

Writers, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the stories

Science in meter and verse

Chromosome cats; Louis Pasteur, master brewer

A new book on the perils of human exceptionalism

Hostility toward LGBTQ kids, enshrined in hundreds of new bills, has put families with such children under unprecedented threat, raising risks of suicide and physical attacks

Chicken takeovers, the missing histories of silk, a dazzling memoir of gravity, and more books out now

Children need patient adults and lots of practice to understand fairness, justice and equality

Researchers use powerful geometrical methods to try fixing unfair districts. That alone isn’t enough; we need to fight the values behind gerrymandering

Researchers are studying how to maximize creativity and connection in remote and hybrid work settings

Election polls are accurate but can only reveal voter intentions on the day they were taken. They don’t predict the future