No one scientific finding is final, yet students and scholars within the social sciences sometimes defer to scientific language to provide a sense of absolute certainty for their claims.

In this Essay, Professors Walker and Monahan examine the use of social science research data to prove contested facts in judicial proceedings. They argue that a court's decision to rely upon social ...

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Are you interested in graduate school or finding a job in introductory research? The Undergraduate Certificate in Social Science Research Methods is designed to provide you with a foundation in social ...

Under house arrest in Egypt, one mathematician transformed how we examine the world. 500 years before the Scientific Revolution, the mathematician Al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham spent hours in a dark room ...

Science and nationalism are often treated as different realms-one devoted to universal truth, the other to collective identity. But in India's civilisation, they were never separate. The pursuit of ...