It started with a classified ad in the “help wanted” section of the Palo Alto Times. Between job postings for Avon reps and security system sales was an ad reading: “Male College students needed for ...

The New Stanford Prison Experiment is a new Netflix reality show inspired by a real 1971 study. Conducted by Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo, the study examined how participants behaved ...

Netflix’s reboot of a notoriously cruel and unusual psychological study makes for unenlightening reality TV. By James Poniewozik James Poniewozik is the chief television critic of The New York Times.

Try this experiment to make a miniature chemical fountain using only soluble ammonia and atmospheric pressure The ammonia fountain is a classic demonstration in which students observe the very high ...

Transform methylthioninium chloride (Methylene blue) from blue to colourless and back again by mixing it with glucose and shaking the solution, then letting it settle An alkaline solution of glucose ...

Modern-day replications of one of history's most disturbing social psychology experiments, the Milgram study, reveal what makes ordinary people obey an immoral order – and how to resist. In June 1961, ...

As members of the public tour a fake ‘residential home’ for disabled people riddled with Nazi ideology, you desperately hope someone will speak up. Prepare for the most excruciating viewing of your ...