In nuclear physics, "magic numbers" identify specific numbers of protons or neutrons that lead to especially stable nuclei.

Quantum mechanics has a reputation that precedes it. Virtually everyone who has bumped up against the quantum realm, whether ...

Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of ...

We present a theoretical approach to optical spectroscopy of open nonequilibrium systems, which generalizes traditional nonlinear optical spectroscopy tools by imposing charge and energy conservation ...

This is a circa 7km long, multi-lode mineralised system that is under-drilled and the Company has delivered a maiden Mineral Resource of 2.3Moz from the Fletcher Zone, from just 1km of Fletcher's ...

Like Roman numerals, their system borrowed letters; like the Arabic numerals we still use, it only needed one symbol for each decimal place. In the 6th century BCE, the Greek alphabet used 24 letters.

The current Bundestag is 23% larger than its 598-seat base due to complex procedures that aim to balance local representation with national political support. As a result, costs for the lower ...

Focusing on easy but scoring topics, clean presentation, and proper definitions can help achieve good marks, the experts said ...

The heart of the problem is the system of single-winner districts, which give 100 percent of representation to the candidate who earns the most votes and zero percent to everyone else.

There was a lot of talk during this campaign of the UK being “broken”. But the election result itself is a symptom of a system that is broken. Half a million more people voted for Jeremy ...

The Conservatives have so far won 119 seats - and a 23.7 per cent vote share. Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, has the third largest share of the vote at 14.3 per cent, but only four seats. The ...

But that is under our first past the post system. Under proportional representation, however, the results would have been wildly different with Reform winning 93 seats.