In the early 1990s, eight people agreed to vanish from the world and live for two years inside a sealed glass habitat in the ...

In the middle of the desert, miles from any city, are two HUGE concrete tubes. They’re part of a giant machine running the ...

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, ...

While AI can streamline certain parts of the scientific process, a philosopher argues that it cannot replace human expertise ...

A new database tells the stories of victims of forced medical research during the Nazi era. What role do the specimens and findings from that time play in modern medicine and research? Forced medical ...

Polaris Dawn, the first of the Polaris Program’s three human spaceflight missions, announced today the extensive suite of science and research experiments the crew and SpaceX will conduct throughout ...

Ali Brivanlou slides open a glass door at the Rockefeller University in New York to show off his latest experiments probing the mysteries of the human embryo. "As you can see, all my lab is glass — ...