Social Sciences

Gifts play an important role in human relationships and are about more than consumerism

More people are using doorbell cameras and sharing the footage with the police, but there are few data showing their effectiveness

Building codes that don’t fully account for climate change are “one of the most significant factors” in increasing disaster risk, a federal report says

Economists dive into the financial impact of Christmas trees—real and artificial alike—on the U.S.

Burials holding mummies with false heads have been discovered from the Wari Empire in Peru

Science, statistics and expert testimony are crucial in securing justice. But their dubious applications in the courtroom can send innocent people to jail 

The best fiction, nonfiction, history and sci-fi books Scientific American staff read in 2023

Far-right extremists shifted their online hate from Muslims to Jews in 2017, and offline hate followed the same trends 

Three experts break down how misinformation and propaganda spread through conflict and how to debunk it yourself.

The powerful symbolism of forests, an AI that struggles to optimize the life of a “post-body” person, and more books out now

Racial and gender disparities persist in award-winning kids’ literature despite recent gains in representation

Science in meter and verse