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25 human experiments too disturbing to ignore

The pursuit of scientific knowledge has driven humanity to remarkable achievements — cures for diseases, revolutionary technologies, and breakthroughs that have saved millions of lives. Yet this noble ...
CNA

Inside Unit 731: Japan’s Secret Human Experiments - Episode 2: The Long Shadow

After the war, Unit 731’s scientists evade justice. Families of POWs search for answers about secret tests, while former ...
Newsweek

Scientists Trick Mice with Human Experiment—Here’s Why It Has ‘Unparalleled’ Value

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Mice have been shown to experience an artificial sense of limb ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Chimps Seem to Love Crystals. Their Attraction Might Help Explain Humans’ Obsession With the Shimmering Stones

Researchers dubbed one experiment involving a roughly one-foot-tall crystal "The Monolith" in honor of Stanley Kubrick's iconic film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Aden Kahr Humans have long been fascinated ...
Heartland

The Milgram Experiments: Distressing Evidence of Human Nature or the Effectiveness of the Prussian Education System?

During the first half of the 20th century, Europeans were subjected to extreme human brutality. Millions of people were killed in the first World War, millions of people were killed by communists ...

A swarm of robot ants learned to build without a boss, and Harvard’s experiment points to machines that could work where humans cannot

Harvard’s swarm of robot ants builds without a boss. See how these autonomous machines could tackle work in the world's most ...