In a new milestone for fusion energy research, physicists in China say they have exceeded the plasma-density limit.

Although science often advances through tried-and-tested methods, sometimes scientists have to find creative ways to test ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. A field experiment is a research method that uses ...

From 1955 to 1975, the Army conducted chemical weapons testing on volunteer soldiers at the Edgewood Arsenal facility in Maryland in pursuit of an agent that could disable enemy troops on the field of ...

Could we be trapped inside a simulated reality, rather than the physical universe we usually assume? It’s a tantalizing theory, long theorized by philosophers and popularized by the 1999 blockbuster ...

As we’re almost ready to close the chapter of 2025, let’s rewind and look at some fashion pieces this year that had an understated concept but looked realistically bizarre. The public gave these ...

Sixty years ago, a monstrous hepatitis experiment was performed on mentally disabled children at Willowbrook State School that raises serious ethical questions about vaccine challenge trials for Covid ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics experiments that changed the world. When you purchase through links on our site ...

From a telescope network that spans much of the globe to a psychology study that spans 67 countries, here are the biggest science experiments on the planet. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Imagine walking into a laboratory where an AI is carefully adjusting a microscope, running experiments, and analysing results ...