A Jail Experiment opened by testing inmate self-governance at Pinal County Jail, where racial politics and power struggles ...

Thirty years ago the world's longest running evolution experiment began when scientist Richard Lenski seeded 12 identical flasks with E. coli bacteria. Every subsequent day someone in the lab has ...

Mary Roeloffs is a Forbes breaking news reporter covering pop culture. A new Netflix docuseries that captured the results of a social experiment on inmates within a small Arkansas jail has captured ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Bradley covers the intersection of tech and entertainment. In 1971, a groundbreaking experiment was conducted in the basement ...

IN A darkened auditorium in September 2008, I sat in the audience awaiting the start of a presentation entitled “The psychology of evil” by social psychologist Philip Zimbardo. Suddenly, the doors at ...

Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to ...

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 ...

A photon was apparently detected in two places at once in a twist on the classic double-slit experiment, but many physicists ...