Social Sciences

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

Levels of murder, assault, torture, and the like fluctuated greatly in the ancient world, according to new research

Science plays an enormous unseen role in keeping international avenues of contact open, even when political doors slam shut. We need to keep those channels open with China

The Philippines, India and China have seen the greatest total number of children displaced by disasters—some 23 million—in recent years

A new study suggests humans arrived in the Americas before the height of the last ice age more than 20,000 years ago

If this new estimate holds up, scientists have yet to identify the vast majority of earthworks strewn across the Amazon

The furor over a Nobel Prize winner’s derailed career lets scientists off the hook for their own responsibilities to fix a broken academic reward system

Vaccinologist Peter Hotez explains how the movement to oppose science and scientists has gained power