Can you measure the weight of a human soul? No, but that didn’t stop Duncan MacDougall from trying.

In the era of precision cosmology, research often means big science: large observatories, highly complex instruments, ...

In 2021, the first result from the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab confirmed a two-decade-old measurement from Brookhaven, ...

Nearly every object we interact with in our lives has a mass, but where does this mass come from? Modern physics says matter ...

Inertia has signed three agreements with the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, paving the way for the company to bring its ...

Research from MIT Sloan School of Management has demonstrated a new way of designing social science experiments that can ...

The experiment also showed that tuning the light beam controlled the propulsion—the stronger the laser, the greater the ...

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Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

IN A darkened auditorium in September 2008, I sat in the audience awaiting the start of a presentation entitled “The psychology of evil” by social psychologist Philip Zimbardo. Suddenly, the doors at ...

The killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, was a seismic event, a turning point that compelled many Americans to do something and do it with urgency. Many educators responded by holding mandatory ...