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, ...

Living human neurons were trained to play Doom, extending the long-running engineering benchmark into biological computing.

The human mind has always fascinated scientists, but the quest to understand psychological behavior has led researchers down some disturbingly dark paths.

Scientists have advanced human-animal chimera research by successfully growing human cells within the organs of mice. This development could bring experts closer to the goal of custom-growing human ...

In a world that demands constant decision-making, your ability to adapt—whether acting alone or with others—matters more than ever. But how do people actually strike that balance between doing things ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Bradley covers the intersection of tech and entertainment. In 1971, a groundbreaking experiment was conducted in the basement ...