The people of Earth have aspirations to return to the Moon and eventually colonize Mars, two places where oxygen isn't ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Bradley covers the intersection of tech and entertainment. In 1971, a groundbreaking experiment was conducted in the basement ...

Sequel to notorious Stanford experiment receives funding cut after project violates principles of experimental design, again.

Imagine asking the biggest, most fundamental question of all: what is reality? How would you go about answering it? If you took the scientific approach, you'd go down to the smallest indivisible ...

What is the most beautiful experiment in physics? Robert P Crease invites your suggestions Small wonder: this STM image of an oval-shaped array of iron atoms on a copper surface is a real experimental ...

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 ...

In 1971, Stanford University psychologist Philip Zimbardo conducted a notorious experiment in which he randomly divided college students into two groups, guards and prisoners, and set them loose in a ...

This article is an extended version of the article “The double-slit experiment” that appeared in the September 2002 issue of Physics World (p15). It has been further extended to include three letters ...

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This is the final entry in my series on using AI to help play March Madness pools. Like most stories, I had hoped […] ...