Social Sciences

Many parents choose sleep training to get their babies to sleep through the night. But the evidence supporting it is flawed

Gen Z can’t stand inequality. Why so many of its men voted Republican is a lesson in understanding male identity

Two sets of fossilized footprints from early human species were made within a few hours of each other about 1.5 million years ago, researchers suggest

If we lose sight of why empathy matters, both individual dignity and democracy suffer

From “ouch” to “aïe” to “yakayi,” languages across the world exclaim pain using similar-sounding words, hinting at a common origin

A renowned psychiatrist and activist compares Trump’s election to other pivotal historical moments in which the ultimate victim was truth itself

A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet rather than hieroglyphs or cuneiform

Voters supported abortion rights measures while electing antiabortion candidates in the 2024 election. The split reflects a complicated abortion landscape post-Dobbs

A social scientist looks at the portrait of U.S. voters, and voting, in the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election that put Trump into the White House

Play this crossword inspired by the December 2024 issue of Scientific American

In End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland, the title is flipped, but cyberpunk pleasures remain

Science in meter and verse