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In 2021, the first result from the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab confirmed a two-decade-old measurement from Brookhaven, ...

The experiment also showed that tuning the light beam controlled the propulsion—the stronger the laser, the greater the ...

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

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The killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, was a seismic event, a turning point that compelled many Americans to do something and do it with urgency. Many educators responded by holding mandatory ...

In August 1971, at the tail end of summer break, the Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo recruited two dozen male college students for what was advertised as “a psychological study of prison ...

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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, ...