It’s one thing to re-create the chemistry of life in a lab, but experiments that are doable in a flask may be improbable at best under messy real-world conditions. “You can think of the ...

Ms. Sittenfeld is the author of the forthcoming story collection “Show Don’t Tell” and several novels. This summer, I agreed to a literary experiment with Times Opinion: What is the ...

Do you ever feel like you're living in a simulation? What if the world as we know it isn't actually real? Could we really be ...

In this experiment it is not as easy to determine ... add 2 spatulas of decolourising charcoal to the conical flask. Heat gently, using tripod, gauze, Bunsen burner and heatproof mat – do ...

This requires a conical flask and gas syringe. Similarly, when calcium carbonate reacts with dilute hydrochloric acid, it produces carbon dioxide gas. We can measure the rate of the reaction by ...

It’s really true—science can be fun! Engaging kids with hands-on experiments activates multiple parts of the brain, which means they’re more likely to retain what they’ve learned.

We will look at a very easy experiment that provides lots of information about the strength or the mechanical behavior of a material, called the tensile test. The basic idea of a tensile test is to ...

Learn more here. A field experiment is a research method that uses some controlled elements of traditional lab experiments, but takes place in natural, real-world settings. This type of experiment can ...

In 1942, Sigmund Rascher and others conducted high-altitude experiments on prisoners at Dachau. Eager to find out how best to save German pilots forced to eject at high altitude, they placed ...

The following experiment illustrates this : Five ounces of distilled water in a clean flask boiled at 213g-J Fah. Some perfectly clean mercury was poured in, enough to form a ring at the bottom of ...

The Long-term Evolution Experiment has lived in Erlenmeyer flasks for 7,500 generations and counting -- for the first 34 years at Michigan State University, now on to the University of Texas at ...