In 1798, Henry Cavendish looked through his telescope into a darkened room. Inside the room, large lead spheres hung next to small two-inch counterparts, gravity bringing them slowly together. From ...

Animal-rights group released video footage that shows distressed baby macaques undergoing lab experiments Footage released by the animal-rights group Peta reveals, for the first time, filmed ...

NASA astronaut Luke Delaney conducts botany experiments on the ISS.

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The most beautiful experiment in physics, according to a poll of Physics World readers, is the interference of single electrons in a Young’s double slit. Robert P Crease reports Simply beautiful – the ...

A conversation with HBS professor Stefan Thomke on building a culture of experiments. Stefan Thomke, professor at Harvard Business School, says running experiments can give companies tremendous value, ...

These virtual experiments are optimized for high school students, but anyone can learn the basics of materials science and engineering. They simulate basic materials experiments used by scientists and ...