Social Sciences

Songs and speech across cultures suggest music developed similar features around the world

In The Dispossessed, a physicist is caught between societies

A history of citrus fruits, from the Han Dynasty to the modern orange juice industry

Occam’s razor holds that the simplest explanation is closest to the truth. But the real world is quite complex

What works to improve health equity? And it might be time to end the leap second

Letters to the editors for the June 2024 issue of Scientific American

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

Marie Curie is well known for her chemistry achievements but less so for helping other women succeed in science

The presidential candidates differ on classroom censorship, school choice, federal funding for schools, and more

Both presidential candidates would restrict immigration but Donald Trump would try to implement an extreme anti-immigrant agenda

Scientists reveal the identity of a cannibalized captain from the doomed Northwest Passage expedition of 1845 to 1848

Linguist and sociophonetician Nicole Holliday analyzes the language used by candidates in the recent presidential and vice presidential debates