(YouTube link) New Scientist produced a new O...  ...imation to explain the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment in a hurry. As if you could explain "collapsed re...

Medieval knighthood sounds like a romantic career in fiction. What a life of chivalry was really like doesn't seem all that great. A team of scientists tried to replicate the work of a knight clad in up to 110 pounds of...

Want an edge over the average person playing rock-...  ...rock-paper-scissors? Try playing blindfolded! An experiment by Richard Cook at University College in London s...

In 1971, psychology professor Philip Zimbardo bega...  ...71, psychology professor Philip Zimbardo began an experiment that became known as the Stanford Prison Experiment . Students were randomly assigned to be "guards" o...  ...studies. Forty years later, the Stanford Prison Experimen...

Robb Posch undertook an experiment in which he ate nothing but candy for a week. Oh,...  ...es candy -about half as much as he did before the experiment

by Frederic N. Firestone, Ph.D., J.D. Virgini...  ...l." The problem has a simple solution: re-run the experiment , but instead of giving standard placebos t...  ...ort and expense, it ensures a double-blind experiment . (Image credit: Flickr user Jake Bouma) FDA...

Stacy Conradt makes cupcakes, and is planning to experiment with new styles and flavors. Key Lime: vanilla c...

(video link) Adam Savage of the TV show Mythbus...  ...dam Savage of the TV show Mythbusters explains an experiment that the Discovery Channel rejected. Did your mot...

The brains of people who perform complex tasks suc...  ...adjustments to maximize performance. A series of experiments by different scientists find that athletes' brain...

(YouTube link) Neil Fraser wondered if a lava l...  ...wide centrifuge in his living room to conduct the experiment to answer his question.The centrifuge is a genuin...