Is social science research trustworthy? The economist Noah Smith raises this question in a recent piece entitled “How many of our ‘facts’ about society health, and the economy are fake?” As he points ...

The Tuesday after spring break, students from Purdue University’s Computational Social Science Lab eagerly gathered in the Joe and Maggie Kernan Social Science Research Lab on Beering Hall’s second ...

AI—or artificial intelligence—is often used as a way to summarize data and improve writing. But AI tools also represent a powerful and efficient way to analyze large amounts of text to search for ...

A researcher has created a chatbot that is indistinguishable from human participants in online surveys. Some researchers fear ...

When Meghann Lucy, a graduate affiliate of the Center for Innovation in Social Science, or CISS, collected data on cases of hoarding, she wanted to identify the patterns of where these cases were most ...

Durham youths live every day of their lives dealing with economic, social, health, racial and judicial issues that shape their communities. If they want to gain experience studying those issues in ...

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The social science data analysis and visualization minor introduces students to the fundamentals and current innovations of research and data analysis across social science disciplines. It equips ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University’s Social Science Research Center celebrated its 75th anniversary Thursday [Nov. 6], recognizing decades of influential research locally, nationally and ...

Sustainability science is an emerging field of academic research. Sustainability scientists focus on understanding and addressing the complex interactions between humans and the natural world from an ...

On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy informed the National Academy of Sciences that it should terminate all work on this activity. This activity has ended, and a final product was not released.