Scientists secretly wired dogs’ brains to steer their behavior, revealing just how far the agency was willing to push its Cold War ambitions.

The human mind is turning out to be far stranger and more intricate than the tidy diagrams in old biology textbooks ever ...

Scientists have created a computer model that aims to mimic the human brain, hoping it might teach us about ourselves.

One researcher revives a famous (or possibly infamous) human experiment. Dec. 19, 2008— -- In the early 1960s, Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram shocked America when he demonstrated ...

President Trump is trying to save money by terminating leases on facilities used by federal agencies. One of these is EPA’s Human Studies Facility located at the University of North Carolina-Chapel ...

Enlightening, uplifting and refreshingly innovative, this series takes a pioneering journey through the unexplored galaxy inside our own heads. Combining cutting edge science with extraordinary ...

In a recent podcast, Richard Shotton unpacked the psychology of sound, showing how radio advertising influences behavior ...

The military exposed thousands of servicemen to radioactivity when it called them to participate in nuclear weapons tests, including Operation Teapot in 1955. One was Eldridge Jones, who later ...

This course explores the history of the scientific study of the human body from ancient Greece and Rome to the present. It examines the ways in which different communities sought to study, control, ...

Upon learning of the horrific experiments, a group to which I belonged sued the agency in federal court to stop them. The documents filed by EPA in response to our lawsuit revealed some shocking facts ...