In 1907, physicist Albert Einstein devised what we now call the “elevator” thought experiment, in which he dreamed up the idea of having an entire physics laboratory inside a falling elevator. The result of Einstein’s experimental elevator experiment was nothing less than the principles underlying the General Theory of Relativity. […]
The founder of modern genetics, Gregor Mendel, may have falsified data in his famous pea experiment in order to better correspond with his expectations. […]
By Sean Carroll, PhD, California Institute of Technology In the hunt for dark matter, several candidates could make up this mysterious substance. One of the more […]
By Steven L. Goldman, PhD, Lehigh University One enduring mystery of modern science is why it developed where and when it did. Had modern science emerged in late Greco-Roman antiquity, […]
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