One of the most unethical human experiments of all time involved scaring a young child called Little Albert, and they went ...

Human experimentation made many modern medical advances possible—but history shows what happens when ethics are ignored. Across wars, regimes, and institutions, people were subjected to cruel and ...

When making decisions and judgments, humans can fall into common "traps," known as cognitive biases. A cognitive bias is ...

A record of scientific ambition at its worst and best, where progress, power and ethics collided and changed global rules forever. The post The Hard Truth Behind History’s Most Notorious Scientific ...

A new study suggests humans can sense hidden objects without touching them, by detecting faint movements in sand. This unexpected form of “remote touch” challenges traditional ideas about how the ...

The astounding revelation that U.S. medical researchers intentionally gave Guatemalans gonorrhea and syphilis more than 60 years ago is so horrifying that we want to believe that what happened then ...

The specter of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study inevitably looms over talk of human subjects in medical research. The well-known case involved the U.S. Public Health Service, which, from 1932 to 1972, ...

Humans aren't the only species that can pretend, a study shows. Scientists offered a bonobo imaginary juice and grapes in a ...