Since you are using isopropyl alcohol, be sure that a teacher, parent, or other adult is working with you. Be sure to keep the alcohol away from heat or any flames. Read and follow all the warnings on ...

We will look at a very easy experiment that provides lots of information about the strength or the mechanical behavior of a material, called the tensile test. The basic idea of a tensile test is to ...

Philip G. Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial “Stanford Prison Experiment” that was intended to examine the psychological experiences of imprisonment, has died. He was 91.

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics experiments that changed the world. Physics experiments have changed the ...

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 MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT was performed in the basement of a WESTERN RESERVE UNIV. dormitory in July 1887 by ALBERT A. MICHELSON of the Case School of Applied Science and EDWARD W. MORLEY of ...

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 ...

The first thing any scientist does before performing an experiment is to form a hypothesis about the experiment's outcome. This often takes the form of a null hypothesis, which is a statistical ...

Chemotherapy: Uses special medicines to shrink or kill the cancer. The drugs can be pills you take or medicines given in your ...

Here are some key takeaways from the full Magazine article on Michigan’s D.E.I. experiment. Michigan has poured a staggering quarter of a billion dollars into D.E.I. Striving to reach “every ...

"We were able to register a livermorium nucleus in our detector just eight days into the experiment, which shows that we had chosen pretty good settings from the start," says Dirk Rudolph ...