Society
Ancient Greeks and Romans knew harming the environment could change the climate
Humans have known about, thought about and worried about climate change for millennia.This article is brought to you by this site.
Month: November 2025
Social Sciences
Those who work together tend to move in sync, trampoline experiment shows
A team of sports scientists and cognitive biologists at the University of Vienna has demonstrated in a new study that solving a task together can promote spontaneous movement synchronization. Such synchronization serves as a kind […]
Social Sciences
Q&A: Measuring temptation one mouse click at a time
Exercising self-control is about more than simply maintaining a willpower of iron and an eye toward the greater good, a new Yale study finds; it’s really a delicate dance full of waffling deliberation.This article is […]
Social Sciences
Double disadvantage hurts more than twice as much when it comes to social isolation, study finds
Belonging to more than one marginalized group can make building and maintaining social connections significantly harder, often in ways that go far beyond a simple sum of disadvantages. A new study shows how inequalities in […]
Social Sciences
Sex for money: Study reveals the harm that ‘blessers’ can do to young women
A “blesser” is typically an older, relatively wealthier man who provides a younger woman with money, gifts, school fees or lifestyle access in exchange for a relationship that includes sex. Similar arrangements exist around the […]
Social Sciences
College women face 75% higher risk of sexual violence than nonstudents
Young women attending college face a dramatically higher risk of sexual violence than those who don’t, especially if they live on campus, according to a new analysis of national crime data by Washington State University […]
Social Sciences
Reframing aging as evolutionary success
In our modern society, aging tends to be something we ignore, and then try to avoid. Mainstream culture is geared toward the young, using the young to gauge trends and styles, and targeting their spending […]
Society
Cyclists may be right to run stop signs and red lights. Here’s why
Interactions between different users on roads are often a source of frustration, the most prominent being those between motorists and cyclists.This article is brought to you by this site.
Society
Saturday Citations: Test flight of the X-59; a confounding quantum calculation; the universe is not simulated
This week, researchers published LIGO findings that hint at the existence of second-generation black holes. Astronomers captured a spectacular new image of the Milky Way across a wide range of radio wavelengths. And medical researchers […]