Socially assistive robots interact with people and can do chores, help in health care, and offer emotional support. Will the pandemic make them catch on?

Demolishing abandoned houses may help whole neighborhoods by getting people to do a better job maintaining their own properties, a new study shows.

A new survey finds that 66% of likely voters support voting by mail for all Americans for the November election and just 22% oppose that idea.

People who get most of their news from social media are more likely to have misperceptions about COVID-19, a new study shows.

The regular sounds of sports will be missing when they return after COVID-19 hiatuses. How will silence or artificial crowds change the game for viewers?

New research examines how people articulate their sadness when a robot "dies," such as NASA's Opportunity rover.

The US has a long history of anti-Asian hate crimes and "othering," say researchers, including the Chinese Exclusion Act, Japanese internment camps, and other events.

Two forms of abuse, stalking and harassment, are surprisingly common in teen relationships, according to new research.

New research identifies a possible terms for food made from the cells of fish or shellfish, rather than whole animals: cell-based seafood.

"...longstanding worries about income inequality and its relationship to college opportunity are warranted."