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

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 ...

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 ...

“These proteins act as molecular instructions that tell stem cells when and how to develop into heart muscle cells. However, ...

Dementia risk does not disappear after age 90. Even among people who reach their 10th decade without cognitive symptoms, the likelihood of developing the condition can vary substantially by sex, race, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering A battery-free sweat sensor could make levodopa monitoring ...