Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. A field experiment is a research method that uses ...

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The closest thing to utopia the world has ever seen might have existed in a Maryland barn for a couple of years during the late 1960s: a complex built for rodents as part of a science experiment. The ...