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Experimental Design
53mins
Sam Kean examines how rogue archaeologists are recreating the sounds, tastes, smells, and practices of the ancient past.
The VENUS survey isn't about planets at all, but about finding multiply-lensed supernovae. The ambition? To save the expanding Universe.
With new labs, funding models, and institutions, metascience is reinventing the machinery of discovery.
In "Dinner with King Tut," Sam Kean examines how a burgeoning field is recreating ancient tasks to uncover historical truths.
A proton is the only stable example of a particle composed of three quarks. But inside the proton, gluons, not quarks, dominate.
Scientific surprises, driven by experiment, are often how science advances. But more often than not, they’re just bad science.
DUNE is designed to detect the Universe's most antisocial particle: the neutrino.
A longstanding mismatch between theory and experiment motivated an exquisite muon measurement. At last, a theoretical solution has arrived.
Glueballs are an unusual, unconfirmed Standard Model prediction, suggesting bound states of gluons alone exist. We just found our first one.
Sci-fi enthusiasts have long hoped that a substance called antimatter might experience gravity opposite that of ordinary matter. It doesn't.
We are prone to false memories. One reason is that we are biased toward remembering tidy endings for events, even if they didn't exist.
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A physicist discusses the boundaries of reality and experimentation.
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This biologist built a living robot from frog cells — and it could hold the key to the future of regenerative medicine.
There may be unknown particles lurking inside the quantum foam.
An army of replicators belonging to national laboratories, research universities, and amateur garages is rushing to replicate ambient superconductivity in LK-99.
Recent claims put LK-99 as the first room temperature, ambient pressure superconductor ever. Has the game changed, or is it merely hype?
Some processes, like quantum tunneling, have been shown to occur instantaneously. But the ultimate cosmic speed limit remains unavoidable.
Michael Faraday's 1834 law of induction was the key experiment behind the eventual discovery of relativity. Einstein admitted it himself.
The double-slit experiment, hundreds of years after it was first performed, still holds the key mystery at the heart of quantum physics.
A new discovery pushes back the origin of these technologies by about 40,000 years.
With a bigger, better, and more sensitive detector, the XENON collaboration joins LZ and PANDA-X in constraining WIMP dark matter.
Theory without experiment is blind, and experiment without theory is lame.
In all mammals, there are two brain pathways for processing information from the eyes: an evolutionarily ancient one and a more modern one.
It isn't just identical particles that can be entangled, but even those with fundamentally different properties interfere with each other.
Laser-guided lightning systems could someday offer much greater protection than lightning rods.
A vitamin that makes your body repellent to mosquitos sounds too good to be true, because it is.
There may be a faster, less-painful way to use radiation against cancer.
They say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. But thanks to these three pioneers in quantum entanglement, perhaps we do.
Searching for dark matter, the XENON collaboration found absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Here's why that's an extraordinary feat.