Inertia has signed three agreements with the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, paving the way for the company to bring its ...

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

Quantum physicists at the Australian National University (ANU) have achieved a major milestone by directly observing atoms ...

The experiment also showed that tuning the light beam controlled the propulsion—the stronger the laser, the greater the ...

In 1969, a controversial experiment used amphetamines to induce psychosis in healthy volunteers—changing our understanding of ...

The killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, was a seismic event, a turning point that compelled many Americans to do something and do it with urgency. Many educators responded by holding mandatory ...

(NOTE: This article is part of an ongoing series that documents an experiment with using AI to fill the NCAA brackets and see how it fares against years of human experience. The original article is as ...

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IN A darkened auditorium in September 2008, I sat in the audience awaiting the start of a presentation entitled “The psychology of evil” by social psychologist Philip Zimbardo. Suddenly, the doors at ...

From the time of the founding era to the present day, one of the more common things said about American democracy is that it is an “experiment.” Most people can readily intuit what the term is meant ...