Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wikimedia Commons People predicting the end of world generally make those predictions without scientific evidence to support them.

On July 9, 1968, eight white mice entered what was supposed to be paradise. None of their descendants would ever leave, or survive. The enclosure known as Universe 25 would become one of science’s ...

The closest thing to utopia the world has ever seen might have existed in a Maryland barn for a couple of years during the late 1960s: a complex built for rodents as part of a science experiment. The ...

Food and water are provided without limit, and the intrusion of natural enemies is completely blocked. Pathogens are ...

Editor’s Note: Eric, here. As InvestorPlace Digest writer Jeff Remsburg details in a recent piece, renowned behavioral researcher John B. Calhoun conducted a series of experiments that, by creating a ...

Lessons from an experiment in the 1960s … what would an AGI-based "utopia" do to humans? … why "we'll all be painters" has flaws … The biologist had created a perfectly engineered "utopia." The focus ...