ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (June 4, 2020) — Army Futures Command (AFC) is incorporating emerging commercial satellite constellations and technologies into its upcoming field experiments to enable ...

Editor's note: This story first appeared on the Division of the Social Sciences website. Inequality has many causes, but sometimes it stems from a lack of incentives that foster fair outcomes. That’s ...

In a review in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Stephen Long, a professor of crop sciences and of plant biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, describes research ...

Results from a long-term field experiment shed new light on how grasslands can be restored for nature, the environment, and for farmers. From richer biodiversity and benefits for pollinators, to ...

Nearly 400 years ago Galileo performed the first recorded laboratory experiment, timing balls as they rolled down an inclined plane to test his theory of acceleration. Since that time, laboratory ...

Researchers from the University of Tokyo in Japan have conducted a six-year field experiment using an agrivoltaics system with lowland rice growing underneath. The on-farm trial was conducted in ...

The use of deception is common in elite correspondence audit studies. Elite audit studies are a type of field experiment used by researchers to test for discrimination against vulnerable populations ...

The winners of this year’s Nobel in economics did pioneering field experiments that sometimes didn’t work as expected. By Seema Jayachandran When Michael Kremer looked at the data for a study underway ...

We start with the premise that the greater use of field experiments in policy would lead to the more efficient use of scarce resources. This paper asks why field experiments are not used as widely as ...