Discover the Hawthorne Effect's definition, its historical context, debate over its validity, and how it influences human behavior studies and modern research.

Physicists have finally turned a long standing thought experiment into a laboratory reality, showing that electromagnetic ...

Ultracold atoms have successfully mimicked a fundamental quantum effect normally found in electronic circuits.

Plasma, the electrically charged state of matter that lights up stars and neon signs, has just revealed a subtle effect that ...

The experimental biotech startup Verve Therapeutics has paused the first phase of a buzzy human gene-editing trial due to strange side effects in a patient, according to a report from Bloomberg. While ...

Stanford University psychologist Claude M. Steele made headlines in 1995 with a study that introduced the phrase “stereotype threat” into the national lexicon. Put simply, it’s the idea that people ...

Bojinov, Iavor, Ashesh Rambachan, and Neil Shephard. "Panel Experiments and Dynamic Causal Effects: A Finite Population Perspective." Quantitative Economics 12, no. 4 (November 2021): 1171–1196.

After eight years, a project that tried to reproduce the results of key cancer biology studies has finally concluded. And its findings suggest that like research in the social sciences, cancer ...

It sounds like one of the easiest experiments possible: Take two cups of water: one hot, one cold. Place both in a freezer and note which one freezes first. Common sense suggests that the colder water ...