Social Sciences

Science in meter and verse

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

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

Linguists and archaeologists have argued for decades about where and when the first Indo-European languages were spoken and what kind of lives those first speakers led

U.S. elected officials must protect public health and the foundations of our democracy by limiting the intrusion of guns into politics

Far too often city planning is approached as an engineering problem instead of connecting people with the land

A jury awarded Mann more than $1 million—raising hopes for scientists who are attacked politically because of their work