Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to ...

Thirty years ago the world's longest running evolution experiment began when scientist Richard Lenski seeded 12 identical flasks with E. coli bacteria. Every subsequent day someone in the lab has ...

“Instacart is far from the only corporation using AI technologies to determine exactly how much profit they can extract from their customers by overcharging them,” Owens said. “It’s time for ...

In August 1971, at the tail end of summer break, the Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo recruited two dozen male college students for what was advertised as “a psychological study of prison ...

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 ...

Rats are now learning how to play Doom. Not as a joke, but in a real experiment that has just taken a major step forward.

Mary Roeloffs is a Forbes breaking news reporter covering pop culture. A new Netflix docuseries that captured the results of a social experiment on inmates within a small Arkansas jail has captured ...

Olga Khazan and Julia Longoria sit down to announce The Atlantic’s new How To series: How To Start Over. At the height of Freedom Summer, the KKK killed three civil-rights workers in Philadelphia, ...