Stefan Hutzler and Louise Bradley explain how they turned the famous pitch-drop experiment into an outreach activity ...

It’s a little complicated to weigh a dying person on a hospital bed, but that didn’t matter to Duncan MacDougall. In the early 20th century, MacDougall’s unique, purpose-built scale was ready to ...

In 1945, delegates and other attendees at a United Nations conference in California received special editions of The Times ...

Mary Calvi talks to author bestselling children's author Rebecca Stead about her new book "The Experiment," and to Stead's agent Faye Bender.

Recent experiments involving the super-heating of gold have led to unexpected results that challenge a fundamental law of the ...