The Arrhenius equation, which has accurately described rates of chemical reactions for more than a century, may have to be ...

We will look at a very easy experiment that provides lots of information about the strength or the mechanical behavior of a material, called the tensile test. The basic idea of a tensile test is to ...

The spring constant of a spring can be found by carrying out an experiment. The unloaded length ... Figure caption, Graph showing Hooke's Law, force is plotted against extension Provided that ...

"[The lockdown] is arguably the largest psychological experiment ever conducted," wrote health psychologist Elke Van Hoof of Free University of Brussels-VUB in Belgium. The results of this ...

The problem was that Prohibition has already been the law of the United States for nearly ... of Prohibition as "a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose ...

The experiment's new results explore weaker dark ... "Our ability to search for dark matter is improving at a rate faster than Moore's Law," Kravitz said. "If you look at an exponential curve ...

Magnets aren't attracted to copper, but when the two come together they can appear to defy gravity. Download the Magnetic Copper PDF (384 Kb). Adobe Acrobat is required. SAFETY: Neodymium magnets ...

A proposed constitutional amendment would rule out exceptions for local elections. Opponents worry that it could lead to more ...

It’s really true—science can be fun! Engaging kids with hands-on experiments activates multiple parts of the brain, which means they’re more likely to retain what they’ve learned.

In 1942, Sigmund Rascher and others conducted high-altitude experiments on prisoners at Dachau. Eager to find out how best to save German pilots forced to eject at high altitude, they placed ...

or constraints by law,” List said. “Option C is like your reality test, or what I call policy-based evidence.” This problem isn’t unique to field experiments, but List believes tackling the issue of ...

Ms. Sittenfeld is the author of the forthcoming story collection “Show Don’t Tell” and several novels. This summer, I agreed to a literary experiment with Times Opinion: What is the ...