Philip G. Zimbardo, a Stanford University social psychologist whose aborted 1971 experiment, employing college students to play prison guards and inmates, became one of the most controversial episodes ...

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The United States faces a serious crisis within its prison system. Overcrowding has turned many American jails into volatile, dangerously understaffed environments, where as few as two correctional ...

The Stranger Things finale, titled The Rightside Up, doesn’t just close the chapter on Hawkins, it quietly reframes the entire mythology of the series. After five seasons of monsters, secret labs, and ...

A near-100-year-old debate between the theoretical physicists Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr has finally been settled—and not in the former’s favor. A team of physicists in China have realized a ...

Experimental particle physicists working at the MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory have found evidence against the existence of a "sterile" type of neutrino hypothesized ...

WASHINGTON — The defense bill that President Donald Trump signed into law puts an end to many military experiments on cats and dogs and declares a ceasefire to shooting animals in “trauma” exercises.

Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to disprove the quantum mechanical principle of complementarity put forth by ...

A physics experiment published this year that claimed to measure a single photon in two places at once – and, in the process, discredit the idea of a multiverse – drew pushback from many sceptical ...

Indian immigrants in the United States have found success, and unexpected hostility.Credit...Miraj Patel for The New York Times Supported by By Lydia Polgreen Opinion Columnist, reporting from Sugar ...