“The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth,” an amazing account, is all set to air Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 8 p.m./7 p.m. on the National Geographic channel and ready to stream the next day on ...

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 ...

Content warning: This article contains mentions of abuse and suicide that can be disturbing and/or triggering for some readers. The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and several student ...

NASA's objective was for the experiment to only last for five years. The Apollo 11 crew didn't just just accomplish landing on the lunar surface and returning safely — the men also conducted several ...

In 1971, Stanford University psychologist Philip Zimbardo conducted a notorious experiment in which he randomly divided college students into two groups, guards and prisoners, and set them loose in a ...

In physics, breakthroughs are rare. Experiments are slow, expensive and often end up refining, rather than rewriting, our understanding of the universe. But what if the only constraint on scientific ...