Social Sciences

Your favorite word game with a twist of science

Find new ways to fill the long summer days with these quick primers on 10 ancient games

From ancient clay tablets to TV shows to video games, the U.S. Library of Congress preserves far more than just books

The gooey, chocolatey s’more couldn’t have been popularized without the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution, which brought cheap sweets to the masses

The Supreme Court majority’s recent decisions about homelessness, public health and regulatory power, among others, undermine the role of evidence, expertise and honesty in American democracy

Drug policy continues to fixate on symptoms rather than the actual disease

In the Paris 2024 summer Olympics, swimmers will be guided by their digital twin. Here’s how they work to help the fastest swimmers break records

Popcorn might be more than 6,000 years old, an anthropologist explains

A wine still liquid after two millennia turned up at a construction site near Seville, Spain

The skeletons of scribes from ancient Egypt show deterioration from sitting and kneeling

Call off the pest control and learn to live with wildlife

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