Political Science

Adding LED lights to illuminate crime hot spots throughout the city of Newark reduced violent crime by nearly 46% and burglaries by 58%, according to new research from Rutgers University–Newark published in the Journal of […]

Artificial intelligence is making it easier than ever to create convincing fake political content and harder to tell what’s real. Now, a University of Missouri expert is helping voters navigate that changing information landscape ahead […]

As voters seeking information about political issues increasingly turn to LLMs to do research, will AI lead them astray with hallucinations and bias, distorting the democratic process? Maybe not, according to a study of AI […]

Much of the field of sociology treats systemic racism as its default explanation for racial disparities rather than as an open question that requires further investigation and evidence, according to a recent position paper. The […]

Why does the expansion of wind energy sometimes meet with local resistance, even though renewable energy generally enjoys broad support? RIFS researcher Jörg Radtke used a representative survey of 6,284 people in North Rhine-Westphalia to […]

CSI may have spawned innumerable spinoffs, but it turns out you can’t trust TV—or sniffer dogs. New research is questioning the scientific basis for the dogs’ use by police, as well as aspects of bloodstain […]

A year or so after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the city of Murmansk in Russia’s Arctic northwest marked its annual regional day with a celebration for children. Alongside the sons and daughters of Russian […]

Almost every ceremonial object or ornament of the medieval papal monarchy has disappeared or lost its original purpose. Yet one survives: the golden rose. On Sept. 26, 2026, during Pope Leo XIV’s visit to France, […]

The 2026 U.S. midterm campaigns are the first in which AI-generated political ads are regularly appearing on people’s televisions and social media feeds. We are researchers who have been studying political advertising through the Wesleyan […]

A new study led by an academic staff member from the University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka has analyzed trust between police and ethnic minorities in Aotearoa New Zealand and the United States, revealing […]