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 ...

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MIT physicists have performed an idealized version of one of the most famous experiments in quantum physics. Their findings demonstrate, with atomic-level precision, the dual yet evasive nature of ...

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The double-slit experiment is one of the most famous experiments in physics and definitely one of the weirdest. It demonstrates that matter and energy (such as light) can exhibit both wave and ...

Some of the basic ingredients for life are well known: a dash of water, methane, ammonia, hydrogen and a spark. But a pinch of minerals is also needed, according to a new study 1 by Italian and ...

Americans say the would prefer to buy U.S.-made products, but one experiment shows they won't pay a premium for them. We’ve all heard people say: "I’d gladly pay more for products made in America, if ...

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A groundbreaking collaboration between Los Alamos scientists and Duke University has resurrected a nearly forgotten 1938 experiment that may have quietly sparked the age of fusion energy. Arthur ...

In a landmark experiment, scientists have found fresh evidence that a subatomic particle is disobeying one of science’s most watertight theories, the Standard Model of particle physics. The gap ...

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