Best Experiment
Bell’s inequality is a mathematical statement outlining constraints for correlations in physics based on “local realism”—the idea that objects possess definite properties regardless of measurement and that influences cannot travel faster than light. Experiments testing this inequality consistently r...
MythBusters is a factual television program exploring scientific principles through practical experiments. Hosted by Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, it investigates popular myths and urban legends using engineering techniques and rigorous testing. The show demonstrates problem-solving approaches and...
Brain Games is a television series examining cognitive science through illusions and psychological experiments. Originally airing on National Geographic in 2011 as a special, it returned in 2013 achieving a record-breaking premiere audience of 1.5 million viewers. The show investigates counterintuit...
Das Experiment, a 2001 German psychological thriller directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel fictionalizing the Stanford Prison Experiment, in which a simulated prison dynamic between volunteers rapidly turns genuinely violent.
Particle Fever is a 2013 documentary directed by Mark Levinson that follows physicists involved with CERN's Large Hadron Collider near Geneva. Its subjects include experimental and theoretical scientists preparing for the collider's operation and interpreting evidence associated with the Higgs boson...
Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen's 2019 thriller about a makeup artist who joins a psychology study run by a manipulative psychiatrist.
The Russian Sleep Experiment is a creepypasta about a Soviet sleep-deprivation test, notable as an early 2010s internet horror story framed as a secret Cold War trial.
