Curbing Intimate Partner Violence Is a Tall Task
Two studies show that fighting domestic violence just isn't that easy.
Controlling Your Pest Problem With … Bugs
Researchers highlight the role the network of interactions between insects could play in controlling farmland pests.
Cracking Tor
Computer scientists devise a method to unmask users of the world's leading Internet anonymity software—and how to fix the problem.
When Do We Learn to Rationalize?
Children begin to rationalize rather than change their circumstances by as early as age four, a new study suggests.
Streetlights Might Not Make You Safer
In the ongoing debate over whether streetlights reduce crime, a new British study suggests they don't—and cities could save money and energy by cutting back.
Climate Change? What’s That?
As many as 65 percent of people in some countries haven't even heard of climate change, and perceptions of risk often depend on local temperatures as much as beliefs about humans' role in the changing environment, a new study finds.
Three in Five Americans Have Experienced Poverty-Level Incomes
"The income distribution is porous at the top and the bottom," one sociologist says.
Economy, Not Natural Gas, Cut U.S. Emissions
A study finds that economic recession led to an 11-percent decline in carbon emissions, which could spell trouble for the future.