In physics, the well-known observer effect describes how the act of measurement changes what’s being measured. An electron can’t be detected without interacting with a photon, yet that interaction ...

Classically, light can be thought of in two ways: either as a particle or a wave. But what is it really? Well, the ‘observer effect’ makes that question kind of difficult to answer. So before we get ...

The observer effect refers to the influence of the presence or absence of other people on behavior and cognition. This concept can be traced as far back as Plato’s ‘Ring of Gyges’ story in the ...

As many of us might remember, school (K-12) was an intellectually laborious period of our lives; there was a great deal of information that needed to be encoded into our relatively young brains and, ...