Social Sciences

In July 2025, a letter from an English city council neighborhood services officer circulated on social media.This article is brought to you by this site.

A visitor to Japan who wanders into a sumo tournament might be forgiven for thinking they had intruded upon a religious ceremony.This article is brought to you by this site.

Approximately 10% of adult women and 5% of adult men report being a victim of spiking, and almost half of spiking victims feel systematically let down, according to a new report from the partnership between […]

The burying ground looks like an abandoned lot.This article is brought to you by this site.

In a new paper, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign psychology professor Benedek Kurdi proposes a fresh approach to confronting implicit, or unintentional, bias in diverse organizations. He spoke with News Bureau life sciences editor Diana Yates […]

Boomerangs are an iconic symbol of Australia. Known internationally for their unique curved shape and ability to return when thrown, they are an example of the remarkable engineering skills of Australia’s First Peoples.This article is […]

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has developed a novel research model to enhance investigations conducted at the intersection of religion and medicine.This article is brought to you by this site.

For most people, Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) is simply a niche fantasy table-top game. But around tables cluttered with dice, maps and character sheets, players are doing far more than playing. They’re engaging in leisure. […]

In 1874, renowned chemist Sir William Crookes sat in a darkened room, eyes fixed on a curtain over an alcove. The curtain twitched, and out came a glowing ghost of a young woman, dressed in […]

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics recently set out to investigate whether people who are blind gesture like sighted people when talking about the world, and how their unique perceptual […]