It was the late 1960s and early 70s when behavioural researcher John B. Calhoun conducted an experiment called Universe 25, where he created a utopian environment for mice, some think serves as a ...

Paper airplanes flew, scientists sang about stomach bugs and one person dressed as a giant ball of mozzarella: Last Thursday, the 35th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony honored strange scientific pursuits with ...

We know that psychology has a big WEIRD problem—that a majority of insights drawn from the discipline are down to a very homogenous set of people (those from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, ...

In 1862, French neurologist Guillaume Duchenne carried out an experiment. He stimulated people's facial muscles with small amounts of electricity to test which facial muscles we use for certain facial ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Final results from a long-running U.S.-based experiment announced Tuesday show a tiny particle continues to act strangely — but that’s still good news for the laws of physics as we ...