A new book covering the history of scientific inquiry invites us to marvel at the elegance of experimentation. Some philosophers have argued that “beauty” in science stands as a proxy for truth. Many ...

Professor Toshiaki Taniike is pioneering the integration of data science and materials chemistry to accelerate the discovery of advanced materials. His research in materials informatics uses machine ...

Have you ever imagined the solution to a logic problem instead of calculating it? Such “thought experiments” are carried out using one’s imagination rather than doing actual research. Typically ...

In March 2020, an experiment in science philanthropy was hatched in the span of a five-minute call. Patrick Collison, the now-34-year-old billionaire CEO of the online payments company Stripe, and ...

The world’s only net-positive fusion experiment has been steadily ramping up the amount of power it produces, TechCrunch has learned. In recent attempts, the team at the U.S. Department of Energy’s ...

The neutrino “fog” is beginning to materialize. Lightweight subatomic particles called neutrinos have begun elbowing their way into the data of experiments not designed to spot them. Two experiments, ...

Neutrinos are some of nature’s most elusive particles. One hundred trillion fly through your body every second, but each one has only a tiny chance of jostling one of your atoms, a consequence of the ...

From a telescope network that spans much of the globe to a psychology study that spans 67 countries, here are the biggest science experiments on the planet. When you purchase through links on our site ...

A team of scientists has replicated one of Thomas Edison's early experiments from his quest to make the lightbulb, but with ...

Science has always been a field of exploration and discovery, often necessitating bold and perilous experiments. These experiments, while dangerous, have revolutionized our understanding of the world ...