When it comes to R&D spending in the social and behavioral sciences, public universities dominate, according to the latest ...

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 ...

SAFELab's Desmond Upton Patton. ChatGPT seems to be part of every conversation about artificial intelligence since the chatbot was released in November 2022 —including those happening in academia.

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 ...

The availability of big data has created opportunities to study human behavior at unprecedented scale and detail. Parallel developments in artificial intelligence, network science, and complex systems ...

Alison J. Head, Ph.D. is an information scientist and social science researcher. She is the founder and director of Project Information Literacy (PIL), a national, nonprofit research institute in the ...

This project carried out a decadal survey on the social and behavioral sciences (SBS) in areas relevant to national security. The survey identified opportunities that are poised to contribute ...

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.