Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. A field experiment is a research method that uses ...

This is a process that could, theoretically, add dozens of colors to any small PCB. It’s just an experiment right now, but we’re happy to report some limited success. It’s now easy — and ...

Education theory and practice go head to head when Professor Dylan Wiliam takes over one Year 8 class to test simple ideas that he believes could improve the quality of education.

But what does the word "strength" mean? "Strength" can have many meanings, so let us take a closer look at what is meant by the strength of a material. We will look at a very easy experiment that ...

And Erwin Schrödinger famously illustrated the strangeness of quantum physics with a thought experiment involving a cat that is neither dead nor alive. So it hardly seems surprising that ...

In 1942, Sigmund Rascher and others conducted high-altitude experiments on prisoners at Dachau. Eager to find out how best to save German pilots forced to eject at high altitude, they placed ...

The Eötvös Experiment Around 1900 a Hungarian baron conducted exquisite measurements to demonstrate that all bodies fall at precisely the same rate. His result, crucial to the general theory of ...

That was the revolutionary idea behind Ireland’s “transition year” — an experiment piloted in 1974 and adopted as part of the curriculum in most schools, state and private, since 1994.

Jomana Eid decided to step out of her comfort zone and experiment with a different canvas—bread! Instead of using a traditional canvas, she chose a slice of bread as her medium.

Do you ever feel like you're living in a simulation? What if the world as we know it isn't actually real? Could we really be ...

With private citizens and flights going to space more frequently, there will be more opportunities to run experiments in microgravity and probe the bounds of human space travel. “It’s probably ...