Researchers share the easy ways to uncover moments of festive discovery, proving you don’t need a lab coat to experiment this Christmas Christmas may seem like a time for switching off and suspending ...

This experiment uses a warm liquid on ice to explore how heat actually moves and dissipates. Instead of melting evenly, the ice reacts in unexpected patterns that reveal strange thermal behavior. It’s ...

A graduate student, foreground, is greeted by a person playing the role of a store employee, background, in a simulated shoplifting experiment in Takamatsu, Oct. 22, 2025. (Mainichi/Masahiko Sasaki) ...

Osaka, Japan — Slow earthquakes have been discovered to exhibit anomalously slow, long-lasting and small slips, adjacent to regular earthquakes where we sometimes feel catastrophic vibration (Fig. 1).

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - AUGUST 23: Jon Fortt, Co-Anchor of CNBC's Squawk Alley (center), moderates a debate between LinkedIn Co-Founder and Greylock Partner Reid Hoffman (L) and Founder & CEO of O'Reilly ...

In 1943, a physicist and a biologist published a paper that confirmed one of the central pillars of Darwin's theory of evolution. The paper, by Max Delbrück of Vanderbilt University and Salvador Luria ...

An experiment yields surprising results that were not anticipated. Could Trump destroy the Epstein files? New details emerge in the Nevada road rage shooting that killed an 11-year-old University of ...

With the right approach, even small firms can get a competitive advantage from the right kinds of tests. Harvard Business School’s Stefan Thomke says running experiments can give companies tremendous ...

GC–MS/MS provides high resolution, selectivity, and sensitivity, enhancing traditional GC–MS with multidimensional detection capabilities. Triple quadrupole systems in GC–MS/MS enable selected ...

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