14 news posts in Social Sciences

Featured news

18 Aug 2026

Ancient Egyptian tomb shows how burial trends changed over hundreds of years

Placement of mummies in a Theban tomb – from individual placement to stacking of bodies – shows how burial practices and their symbolic implications changed over time

Featured news

17 Jul 2026

Ancient Egyptian princesses born 4,000 years ago were skilled archers, new study shows

Strong muscle attachments and healed fractures show that royal women could use the weapons they were buried with — but also that high status didn’t prevent hardship

Featured news

05 May 2026

‘They weren’t burned by accident’: burned stone, child’s bones, and lost jewelry could reveal prehistoric mining camp high in the Pyrenees

Archaeologists uncover possible evidence of ancient copper smelting spanning more than 2,000 years in a mountain cave more than 2,000 meters above sea level

Featured news

24 Apr 2026

Roman shipwreck reveals fascinating history of repairs throughout the Adriatic 2,200 years ago

Researchers analyzing pollen trapped in the waterproofing layers of long sunken Roman Republic ship find proof that it may have been patched up successively at different locations throughout the Adriatic Sea

Featured news

12 Feb 2026

Rich medieval Danes bought graves ‘closer to God’ despite leprosy stigma, archaeologists find

Study of inequality in medieval graves shows that stigmatized illnesses didn’t bar people from socially prestigious burials

Featured news

20 Nov 2025

Could a child have painted that? Jackson Pollock’s famous pour-painting has child-like characteristics, study shows

Researchers find adults paint richer, more varied trajectories than children, but paintings of the latter share characteristics with famous work by expressionists, including Jackson Pollock

Featured news

22 Jul 2025

Some people could sound angrier when complaining, new study finds

The French sound sad, Québécois sound angry: research shows different cultures may utter complaints differently, highlighting that complaints could be shaped by cultural and social conventions

Social science

21 May 2024

Screen time not the main factor making parent-child interactions worse, study finds

Researchers investigated if ‘technoference’ has worse effects on parent-child interactions than non-digital distractions and found that distraction itself – not its source – may be to blame

Featured news

01 May 2024

The popular kids in school may be sleeping less

Scientists found that popular teenagers sleep less than their peers, and that popular girls experience more insomnia symptoms than popular boys

Featured news

22 Nov 2021

Does wealth always lead to a good education? This new model may help predict student success globally

Does wealth always lead to a good education? New study in Frontiers in Education proposes new model for predicting student success globally

Frontiers news

22 Mar 2018

Frontiers in Psychiatry welcomes new Specialty Chief Editor: Professor Sören Krach

Professor Sören Krach from Lübeck University, Germany, is Specialty Chief Editor of the new Social Cognition section

Humanities

19 Feb 2018

Humans will actually react pretty well to news of alien life

Research published in Frontiers in Psychology investigates humanity’s hypothetical reaction to the discovery of extraterrestrial microbial life

Psychology

14 Sep 2017

Sometimes you shouldn’t say sorry

Saying sorry when making a social rejection can have the opposite effect of its intention, reveals a study in Frontiers in Psychology.

Life sciences

15 May 2017

How physics and mathematics are helping us understand society

New research, published in Frontiers in Physics, brings together social sciences and computational physics to take a look at our society and how it works.