In 1971, 24 men were enlisted in the Stanford Prison Experiment. Led by Philip Zimbardo of Stanford University, the experiment was supposed to measure the effect of role-playing and social ...

A risky woodturning experiment puts a different technique to the test, with no resin involved and plenty of uncertainty about ...

Science gets unpredictable fast when experiments do not go according to plan. Flames erupt sooner than expected, a water rocket sends someone scrambling, demonstrations create bigger reactions than ...