Scientists hunted dark matter and solar neutrinos with one of the largest experiments yet. While the neutrinos likely ...

Foams look simple, but for decades their behavior has defied some of the most trusted equations in fluid physics. Now ...

In The Republic, Plato banished poets for their power to distort judgment. Two thousand years later, that ancient warning is ...

A joint effort between two of the world’s largest neutrino experiments has brought scientists closer to understanding how the ...

For three decades, a riddle has followed neutrinos, the near-weightless particles that stream through Earth by the trillions each second. They change identities as they fly, shifting among three known ...

Two papers challenged the existence of theorized particles called sterile neutrinos that might account for mysteries like the ...

Slow earthquakes have been discovered to exhibit anomalously slow, long-lasting and small slips, adjacent to regular ...

In 1943, a physicist and a biologist published a paper that confirmed one of the central pillars of Darwin's theory of evolution. The paper, by Max Delbrück of Vanderbilt University and Salvador Luria ...

With the right approach, even small firms can get a competitive advantage from the right kinds of tests. Harvard Business School’s Stefan Thomke says running experiments can give companies tremendous ...

Bill Belichick did not mince words when asked about his latest beef with the New England Patriots. The North Carolina head coach has reportedly barred Patriots scouts from entering the Tar Heels’ ...

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