Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments revealed how ordinary people could follow authority to disturbing extremes, with many ...

Experiments aboard Orion are capturing insights about astronaut health that were never recorded during the Apollo program.

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

Chips seeded with the astronauts’ bone marrow cells circled the moon to help probe how deep-space flight affects human ...

It emerged gradually, as the gap between passive observation and informed understanding became harder to ignore. What follows ...

Last November, the UK government announced a bold plan to phase out animal testing in some areas of research. Animal tests for skin irritation are scheduled for elimination this year, and some studies ...

A competition calling for research projects involving so-called AI scientists shows just how fast this technology is moving. A number of startups and university teams that are building “AI scientists” ...

A physics experiment published this year that claimed to measure a single photon in two places at once – and, in the process, discredit the idea of a multiverse – drew pushback from many sceptical ...

Since our 2019 winter edition, the brilliant Mark Asch has done something here that isn’t our default position; he’s examined films together, not in isolation, and has teased out what, for him, are ...

In physics, breakthroughs are rare. Experiments are slow, expensive and often end up refining, rather than rewriting, our understanding of the universe. But what if the only constraint on scientific ...

Jennifer L. Holm’s “Outside” and Rebecca Stead’s “The Experiment” both feature well-meaning grown-ups who do everything to protect their kids — and fail. By Gayle Forman Gayle Forman is the author of ...