Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there are still huge hurdles to overcome.

If one could get into the mind of Aldous Huxley-or at least try to write like someone who spent too many late nights thinking about his books-one woul.

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 ...

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

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

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

In 1973, psychologist David Rosenhan conducted an unusual experiment to test the validity of psychiatric diagnoses. (Jack Rosenhan) The “Rosenhan Experiment” is one of the most influential psychology ...

THANKS TO A CACHE OF DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS, the public is now well aware of the Central Intelligent Agency’s misadventures in mind control throughout the 1950s and 1960s. MKUltra—the agency’s ...

Our body's "blood factory" consists of specialized tissue made up of bone cells, blood vessels, nerves and other cell types. Now, researchers have succeeded for the first time in recreating this ...

This is the first report of remote touch in humans. It changes our understanding of human perceptual world. May have robotics and assistive technology applications; help with exploration, search and ...

According to a recent poll of 500 global CEOs, 94% believe AI could offer better counsel than at least one of their human board members. In October 2025, Samruk-Kazyna, the National Wealth Fund of ...