A new study from the University of Georgia found that even unenforced, or “toothless,” compulsory voting laws can increase voter turnout.

Early language development is key to later communication skills, social interaction, and academic success. A new meta-analysis by the University of Zurich has found that, on average, preterm infants show weaker language abilities than full-term children in the first 18 months of life.

Researchers have launched a new open-source MATLAB toolbox that generates synthetic networks with built-in vital nodes, providing a standardized benchmark for accurate influential-node detection in epidemic control, power-grid resilience, and social media analysis.

When women political candidates deviate from expectations or the views of their party, they are judged far more harshly than men by voters, a new study in Politics & Gender, published on behalf of the American Political Science Association by Cambridge University Press, reveals. 

The research also found that voters begin campaigns with greater uncertainty about women candidates than about men, leading them to scrutinise women candidates to a greater extent when forming opinions of them.