A 10-year effort to measure gravity, a fundamental force in the universe, has failed to come up with a conclusive answer.

Against expert advice, people are using new and unpredictable synthetic drugs to experiment on themselves in hopes of ...

Cutting-edge atomic clocks may soon reveal a strange possibility: time itself behaving like a quantum object, existing in ...

An update to an experiment run by Henry Cavendish in 1773 could be a cheaper and faster way to spot a potential dark matter ...

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AI ran a real store and hired staff, but Luna’s mistakes showed how fast decisions without judgment can create problems. The digital boss is closer than you think.

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 ...

Imagine asking the biggest, most fundamental question of all: what is reality? How would you go about answering it? If you took the scientific approach, you'd go down to the smallest indivisible ...

From the time of the founding era to the present day, one of the more common things said about American democracy is that it is an “experiment.” Most people can readily intuit what the term is meant ...