With innovative approaches to life-threatening diseases and natural disasters, UC San Diego researchers are making critical ...

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Experts from the University of British Columbia have found that bosses actively favour manipulative employees if they think ...

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Research from MIT Sloan School of Management has demonstrated a new way of designing social science experiments that can ...

Environmental carbon coatings determine charge transfer direction between identical insulating materials, enabling control of ...

This week in Woo! Science, the approach of Easter means marshmallow Peeps. So, why not take them to the physics lab? And to the chemistry lab?

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Conducting research is hard; confirming the results is, too. And artificial intelligence isn’t yet ready to help, a major new study finds. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer has reported on replication in ...

Some of these killed people. Some broke people's minds. And some poisoned entire cities. From the Demon Core to Chernobyl's liquidators, these are 25 real science experiments and projects that went ...