Social Sciences

Laws that gut science classes of social context and inclusive design jeopardize progress towards equitable science

Controversial policy proposals such as the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) are making headway across the country, but there are other ways to help protect young people in the digital world

Partisan desires to see opponents harmed has created a vibrant demand for promises of candidate cruelty in the U.S.

A pilot program for high schoolers offers a blueprint in getting students involved in cutting-edge particle physics research

The pandemic provided a natural experiment, one that suggests fewer people in jail does not lead to more crime

The decision to send hominin bones on a commercial spaceflight has raised eyebrows among paleontologists

Schools are a growing battlefield in climate politics as conservative states reshape their curriculum to downplay people’s contribution to rising temperatures

Self-driving cars are expanding their ranges in a handful of U.S. cities, but the reality doesn’t yet match the hype

Seemingly trivial differences in training data can skew the judgments of AI programs—and that’s not the only problem with automated decision-making

A new technique for analyzing modern genetic data suggests that prehumans survived in a group of only 1,280 individuals

There are talented scientists worldwide who do not speak fluent English. We have to accommodate the language barrier or risk losing their potential

Letters to the editors for the April 2023 issue of Scientific American