An experiment is a orderly procedure carried out with the goal of verifying, falsifying, or establishing the validity of a hypothesis. Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when a particular factor is manipulated. Experiments vary greatly in their goal and scale, but always rely on repeatable procedure and logical analysis of the results.
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Scottish trainiacs to convert an old locomotive to hydrogen power
A group of engineers in Scotland are converting old rolling stock to hydrogen power in the pursuit of decarbonizing rail ...
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Spiders in space are so unhappy they can't even build decent webs
Sending spiders to space seems like a good idea (because, science), but arachnids apparently have their own notions ...
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Thought experiment shows how we might be at the mercy of quantum jerks from another universe
Artificial intelligence researcher and US Air Force Captain Eric Halloway recently published a fun thought experiment showing ...
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Is time broken? Physicists filmed a quantum measurement but the 'moment' was blurry
They captured an instant in time, but the moment was blurry. That may sound like the lyrics to a sweet but ultimately nihilistic ...
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Google’s AI Blob Opera lets you create exquisite festive compositions
Blob Opera is a machine learning experiment that produces more sophisticated songs than the festive tunes pumped out by radio ...
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How DeepMind’s protein-folding breakthrough could transform drug development
A DeepMind AI system that accurately predicted how proteins fold into shapes could drive a range of new scientific discoveries. ...
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6 things I wish I knew before I bootstrapped my first SaaS startup
What was the difference between the failure of PricingBot and the success of ScrapingBee? Simply put, experience. Here's ...
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YouTube is testing AI-generated video chapters
The feature could save YouTube creators from having to manually add chapters to the descriptions of their videos.
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How VR is used by psychologists to profile your personality
Virtual reality (VR) has the power to take us out of our surroundings and transport us to far-off lands. From a quick round ...
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New AI project captures Jane Austen's thoughts on social media
A new AI project from magician and novelist Andrew Mayne creates simulated conversations with historical figures including ...
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How aliens could use black holes to power an intergalactic civilization
Remember when I warned everyone that humans would probably destroy all life in the universe like construction workers killing ...
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Google is shutting down another social network you've never heard of
Google is winding down Shoelace, a hyperlocal social networking app it launched last July to help people find others nearby ...
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Scientists successfully created a cybernetic neural network
An international team of researchers spread out over three labs in Switzerland, Italy, and the UK have successfully joined ...
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5 Moon myths and how to debunk them yourself
This year’s first supermoon will potentially grace the sky on February 9. A supermoon is usually defined as the largest ...
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Artist fakes Google Maps traffic jam with 99 phones
Google Maps changed GPS navigation forever, in part by making it accessible to everyone, in part by helping provide accurate ...
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This genius combined every macOS 10 wallpaper into a psychedelic masterpiece
Every wondered what it'd be like if someone combined a whole load of macOS wallpapers into a single image? WELL NOW YOU HAVE ...
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How I used app store optimization to get my game downloaded 2M times
A couple of years ago, I wanted to turn my theoretical app store optimization (ASO) knowledge into a working skill. So I ...
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[Best of 2019] NASA engineer says Viking missions discovered life on Mars in the 1970s
Gilbert Levin, a NASA engineer who worked on the Viking missions, says he's “convinced we found evidence of life of Mars ...
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How Netflix uses psychology to perfect their customer experience
If there’s a company that’s synonymous with seamless customer experience, it’s Netflix. It has become the defacto ...
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Double eureka: Breakthroughs could lead to quantum 'FM radio' and the end of noise
A team of scientists from the University of Chicago discovered a method by which quantum states can be integrated and controlled ...
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Researchers discover quantum vibrations at room temperature
A team of researchers from MIT and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have successfully coaxed a single quantum vibration ...
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Physicists race to develop room-temperature quantum chips
A team of physicists from Stevens Institute of Technology recently unveiled the world's most complex and accurate method ...
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Watch: NASA astronauts build gorgeous zero-gravity fires for science
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are tasked with conducting hundreds of experiments, but perhaps none ...
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These hackers are supercharging your sex toys for increased pleasure
This article was originally published on SEXTECHGUIDE, an independent publication that looks at the intersection between ...
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Boosting a single brain molecule reduced anxiety in lab monkeys
Scientists may have found a potential cure for anxiety after isolating and boosting a molecule in the brains of rhesus monkeys. Andrew ...
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Study: People behave better when they think they’re being watched
If there exists one moral code that can be shared and agreed by almost all cultures and religions, then it must be the concept ...
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The Arque is a mechanical tail for humans — and lord I want one
The Arque is a mechanical tail you strap around your waist, which helps you automatically balance. And it looks fucking sick. ...
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We shouldn’t colonize Mars without knowing if aliens were there before us
Transforming the red planet to support life has long been a dream of science fiction. Mars is now too cold to support life. ...
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Researchers invent multiplayer Tetris game controlled by brainwaves
A team of scientists from the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University have developed a method by which three ...
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Patients' social media use can threaten the reliability of clinical trials
Testing new pharmaceutical treatments is a complicated process. Very often, participants have preferences or hopes, either ...
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Physics breakthrough should solve quantum computing's dead cat problem
A team of Yale researchers just blew the lid off one of quantum computing's biggest problems: the unpredictability of qubits. In ...
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See you earlier: Physicists sent a (simulated) particle back in time
An international team of physicists looking for loopholes in the laws of physics recently simulated a brute-force method ...
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Antimatter breakthrough indicates the universe is hiding something
Scientists from Italy and Switzerland recently performed an experiment demonstrating that antimatter, like matter, has the ...
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Dutch central bank tested blockchain for 3 years. The results? ‘Not that positive’
Cross-border payments, tokenization, and some smart contract stuff. These are blockchain's potential use-cases, according ...
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Meet the biohackers who are putting technology into their own bodies
Technology has become increasingly intrusive. Just a few decades ago, the idea of being near-constantly tethered to a device ...
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Physicists developed an experimental quantum device to predict the future
A team of scientists from Griffith University in Australia and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore have developed ...
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Research: Humans can sense the Earth’s magnetic fields (just like bees)
Do human beings have a magnetic sense? Biologists know other animals do. They think it helps creatures including bees, turtles ...
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What can psychopaths teach us about AI?
What happens when machines learn to manipulate us by faking our emotions? Judging by the rate at which researchers are developing ...
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'The Gyllenhaal Experiment' shows where redditors go wrong in spelling celebrity names
In more than 600,000 attempts at spelling actress Scarlett Johansson’s name, fewer than one-in-three were successful. In ...
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Who's afraid of OpenAI's big, bad text generator?
Have you heard about this new AI that makes fake news? It's supposedly so dangerous the developers had to lock it up! Not ...
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New research shows bees can do math
The humble honeybee can use symbols to perform basic maths including addition and subtraction, shows new research published ...
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Dutch hacker puts his kid’s LEGO train on the blockchain
A Dutch hacker/dad has made his son's LEGO toy into a literal STEEM train, after he modified it to be driven by mining the ...
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A cotton seed sprouted - and died - on China's Lunar Lander
On Tuesday, Chinese media reported that one of the cotton seeds aboard the Chang’e 4 lunar lander sprouted, marking the ...
