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

Some of Florida’s opossums may soon start dying for a noble cause. A few select marsupials fitted with tracking collars may ...

And then we drive this very cylindrical-looking, saucer-shaped device out in the middle of the night, in the rain Chris Polly ...

Other scientists have investigated the idea of a hidden structure further. David Bohm, a 20th-century physicist, built a fully deterministic alternative to quantum mechanics, in which particles move ...

Time already behaves strangely in modern physics. It can stretch, slow, and split depending on speed and gravity.

In this video, we explore the effects of a high-pressure waterjet at 60,000 psi on various random items placed in a plexiglass box. The slow-motion footage captured by a high-speed camera showcases ...

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 ...

The small talk you try to avoid because you think it will be boring may actually be more enjoyable than you think, and good for you as well, according to research published by the American ...

Scientists are using terahertz waves to study tiny structures in brain cells, called microtubules, that may be linked to ...

For decades, physicists have chased the goal of bringing together the building blocks of ...

In crowded environments, more robots don’t always mean faster results—in fact, too many can bring everything to a standstill.

Modern medicine has played a significant role in improving the length and quality of our lives. While many treatments may ...