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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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 ...
