Social Sciences

Digital books will never replace the tactile experience of paper books, but as part of bedtime reading and improving access to reading materials, they shouldn’t be counted as screen time

Letters to the editors for the November 2023 issue of Scientific American

Science in meter and verse

Hashish addiction; a pension for Madame Curie

In a dark thriller, a sexbot questions her owner's demands for love

New insights into why animals play, how to hunt an asteroid, and more books out now

Scientific American is launching a new column about parenting to evaluate the staggering amount of information available and the evidence behind it

U.S. police embraced frequent “consent” searches of motorists during the “tough on crime” era. These searches, meant to sidestep privacy rights, are both racially misapplied and ineffective

Vittrup Man, who was bludgeoned to death in a Danish bog, was a Scandinavian wanderer, according to new research

Scientists are finding ever-earlier examples of artistic expression in the archaeological record that reshape what we know about the abilities of Neanderthals and other archaic humans

Archaeologists have discovered what may be Europe’s oldest human-made megastructure, submerged below the Baltic Sea and dubbed the Blinkerwall

The origin of the decimal point, a powerful calculation tool, has been traced back to a mathematician who lived during the Italian Renaissance