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Analysing voter turnout and victory margins could help to detect fraudulent elections 1.

Meta’s planned shift away from third party fact-checking in favour of a crowdsourced approach has perplexed those who study ...

Blood vessels in the brain rhythmically constrict and dilate to drive waves of cleansing fluid through the organ.

Pharmaceuticals and vector-control programmes have greatly diminished the once-widespread disease, but sustained effort will ...

Studies reveal how risky play can benefit child development. But encouraging it can be a challenge for parents.

Even in fields in which women are well represented, they are up to 40% more likely than men to leave research within 20 years ...

The holy grail of pandemic preparedness is being able to predict how a virus will evolve just by looking at its genetic ...

Sensory organs on the walking legs of the male wasp spider can catch the scent of a female in a mood for romance.

In a few decades, gene-editing technologies could reduce the likelihood of common human diseases. Societies must use this ...

A century ago, physics had its Darwinian moment — a change in perspective that was as consequential for the physical sciences ...