Sound experimental design is of vital importance when conducting any scientific experiment. Choices made at the design stage have the potential to drastically impact the results of any study. A strong ...

Research from MIT Sloan School of Management has demonstrated a new way of designing social science experiments that can uncover patterns invisible to common approaches. In their paper titled ...

Anyone who has washed dishes can tell you that a lot of stuff clings to dirty plates, glasses, and silverware after a meal. And anyone who has developed an automatic dishwasher detergent to clean the ...

Research & development (R&D) can be the ultimate black box. Start with smart people. Add a pile of money. Wait for the next cool technology to pop out. When will it happen? No one can tell. Will it ...

Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled with the wonders of the universe as she is. When she's not daydreaming about flying through space, she's daydreaming ...

What is architectural space? How is it perceived and experienced by the user? What reactions does it produce within the human mind and body? The Experience of Architectural Space is a interactive ...

The experimental work that Shirley M. Tilghman is most known for — cloning the first mammalian gene — is not the one she considers her most elegant. That honor goes to a 1999 paper in the journal ...

Data collection is sometimes performed without considering the effect poorly collected data has in the strength of statistical conclusions. When researchers properly design an experiment, they are ...