Social Sciences

Researchers have documented that social media can harm teens

People may learn from and replicate the skewed perspective of an artificial intelligence algorithm, and they carry this bias beyond their interactions with the AI

Physicians need to be aware of how their choice of words and patient labels affect patients

Meat eating may not have made us human after all, say paleoanthropologists

While contempt for news organizations is intense in the wake of Trump, archived hate mail to reporters shows that even in the 1950s—supposedly the height of public trust in journalism—some Americans always despised the press

Esports are booming on college campuses, and safe participation in gaming is a new Title IX challenge. Schools should get ahead of the threat of harassment now

More than half of Miami-Dade County residents will face pressure to move as rising seas push residents inland to reach higher ground, a new study finds

For the first time, a machine learning technique has revealed Greek words in CT scans of fragile rolled-up papyrus

Doctors want to ban the term “excited delirium,” which has been cited as a possible factor in high-profile police killings of George Floyd and others but is not a recognized medical diagnosis

Insurance plans could cover blockbuster weight-loss medications such as Wegovy and Ozempic, but the benefits may not be accessible to everyone

Students could be taught for the next decade that humans are only partly responsible for climate change

Claudia Goldin mined 200 years of data to show that greater economic growth did not lead to wage parity or more women in the workplace