A perfectly ‘fair’ system may therefore be impossible, but the researchers argue that electoral rules can still be designed to balance these competing goals more effectively. Their findings were ...

A bird egg can look surprisingly oversized for the body that produced it. That puzzle becomes even stranger when viewed ...

Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill traced the discovery to a tidal disruption event, or TDE.

Physicists at Göttingen University imaged three-dimensional wave functions using a tabletop soft X-ray laser. An electron ...

The researchers studied fossilized trunks from the Kyffhäuser Mountains in northern Thuringia, Germany. Known since at least ...

A summer picnic often feels complete only when a wasp arrives to investigate the food. Common social wasps are familiar ...

The discovery comes from Üçağızlı II Cave, a site near one of the most important migration routes in human history. The ...

Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere may form a planet-scale detector for ultralight dark matter, potentially amplifying ...

For adults over 50, excess abdominal fat and low vitamin D levels may form a particularly dangerous combination. A study of ...

In a randomized clinical trial, researchers found that healthy adults who followed a vegan diet for one month developed ...

After ruling out several established immune pathways, the researchers used a genome-wide CRISPR screen to search for the ...

Scientists and citizen volunteers discovered two new snail species in northwestern Montenegro, revealing the region’s hidden biodiversity and strengthening calls to protect Komarnica Canyon within the ...