In 1927, physicist Thomas Parnell poured hot pitch into a funnel at the University of Queensland. In this context, “pitch” is ...

A multi-year study of the reliability of published social & behavioral science research has found that only about half of ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Collaboration that made precise measurement of the g-2 value honored with $3 million from the Breakthrough Prize in ...

A new translation of a 2018 book by French science historian Thibault Le Texier challenges the claims of one of psychology’s most famous experiments. Investigating the Stanford Prison Experiment: ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

A new book covering the history of scientific inquiry invites us to marvel at the elegance of experimentation. Some philosophers have argued that “beauty” in science stands as a proxy for truth. Many ...

The neutrino “fog” is beginning to materialize. Lightweight subatomic particles called neutrinos have begun elbowing their way into the data of experiments not designed to spot them. Two experiments, ...

The vast amount of misinformation circulating in public health is largely due to not understanding evidence-based science.

Volunteers with NASA’s citizen science projects have tested chili pepper plant varieties to grow in space, monitored active ...

If “art for art’s sake” is a desirable slogan, why not “science for science’s sake”? Modern scientists, whose goals are apt to be shaped by armed forces’ research grants or a corporation’s search for ...