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In 1971, Stanford University psychologist Philip Zimbardo conducted a notorious experiment in which he randomly divided college students into two groups, guards and prisoners, and set them loose in a ...

Olga Khazan and Julia Longoria sit down to announce The Atlantic’s new How To series: How To Start Over. At the height of Freedom Summer, the KKK killed three civil-rights workers in Philadelphia, ...

Americans say the would prefer to buy U.S.-made products, but one experiment shows they won't pay a premium for them. We’ve all heard people say: "I’d gladly pay more for products made in America, if ...

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CLIMATEWIRE | The nation's first outdoor test to limit global warming by increasing cloud cover launched Tuesday from the deck of a decommissioned aircraft carrier in the San Francisco Bay. The ...

Some of the basic ingredients for life are well known: a dash of water, methane, ammonia, hydrogen and a spark. But a pinch of minerals is also needed, according to a new study 1 by Italian and ...

Netflix’s Unlocked: A Jail Experiment chronicles revolutionary changes to incarceration taking place at select prisons in the U.S. The second season of Unlocked: A Jail Experiment — which premiered ...

A groundbreaking collaboration between Los Alamos scientists and Duke University has resurrected a nearly forgotten 1938 experiment that may have quietly sparked the age of fusion energy. Arthur ...