Integrative experiment design reveals hidden patterns in decades-old social science research

Research from MIT Sloan School of Management has demonstrated a new way of designing social science experiments that can ...

@ Home Experiments featuring invisible forces

Tanzania Sewell from Club SciKidz Greater Milwaukee shares two experiments you can do at home featuring air pressure and ...
The Post-Crescent

Here's how a Wisconsin student, paper scientists got astronauts to make paper in space in 1986

In 1986, an experiment conceived by an Appleton high school student resulted in the first and only paper ever made in space. The experiment, flown on the space shuttle Columbia, tested if paper made ...

AI writes a research paper that passes peer review

To date, the main role of AI in scientific research has been to assist with narrow tasks such as discovering chemical structures, analyzing data or predicting protein shapes. But now, the technology ...
Fox 23

Weather Experiment Wednesday: Harnessing UV light to create images on paper

In this month’s Weather Experiment Wednesday, Discovery Lab Senior Education Manager Micah Firestone showed us how to harness UV light to create images on special paper. This cyanotide activity ...
Physics World

Earthquake intensities could be reduced by injecting fluids, soggy paper experiment reveals

Seismic kitchen roll: photograph showing paper towel being stretched between an anchor (bottom) and springs (top). (Courtesy: Tzortzopoulos et al. / Geophysical Research Letters) A seismic model based ...