But what does the word "strength" mean? "Strength" can have many meanings, so let us take a closer look at what is meant by the strength of a material. We will look at a very easy experiment that ...

Education theory and practice go head to head when Professor Dylan Wiliam takes over one Year 8 class to test simple ideas that he believes could improve the quality of education.

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 ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. A field experiment is a research method that uses ...

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 ...

Do you ever feel like you're living in a simulation? What if the world as we know it isn't actually real? Could we really be ...

Using a biofilm evolution assay, this study improves the antimicrobial and antibiofilm efficacy of Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteriophages, while a two-phage cocktail shows further improved ...

With private citizens and flights going to space more frequently, there will be more opportunities to run experiments in microgravity and probe the bounds of human space travel. “It’s probably ...

Have you ever done a science experiment and wondered "What would this be like if it were HUGE?" Welcome to Science Max, the exciting series that turbocharges all the science experiments you've done at ...

Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for groundbreaking experiments with entangled photons. These experiments confirmed the predictions for the manifestation of entanglement made by the late CERN theorist ...

On Tuesday, China announced an economic stimulus package with provisions specifically targeted at boosting Chinese equities. The People’s Bank of China announced a $114bn lending pool to help ...

Experiments on Google's 67-qubit Sycamore processor showed operations entering a new "weak noise phase" in which calculations were complex enough to outperform supercomputers, based on benchmark ...