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

Aldous Huxley, a visionary writer, foresaw societal pitfalls through his satirical and science-fiction works, most notably ...

There are no simple solutions on the Martian surface. It is the kind of environment where you would expect molecules to decompose rather than endure—dusty, ...

That’s when we learn to associate one thing with another thing, like the ringing of a bell with food, in the famous example of Pavlov’s dog. The more times we experience the stimulus and the reward, ...

Putting humans and LLMs head-to-head in classic tests of judgment from human psychology underscores the differences between ...

From the first successful kidney transplant in 1954, modern organ transplantation has often been linked to the horrors of Frankenstein. While people have grown to accept kidney and liver transplants ...

In March 2014, young student Ana Saito was making her way home from school… She was expected home by 4 pm, but as the evening arrived, she was nowhere to be seen… A man named Kabu Terauchi had stolen ...

Networks of molecules in our body behave as though they have goals and desires. Understanding this phenomenon could solve the ...

We’ve blown past the Turing test, but "indistinguishable" isn’t "equivalent." Psychology must continue to learn from people, ...

Many researchers are surprised and relieved over an unusual step taken by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH): the agency is rolling back the red tape on a host of basic-science experiments ...

Paul I. Yakovlev worked at state institutions for over 25 years, collecting the post-mortem brains of his patients.