One of the most unethical human experiments of all time involved scaring a young child called Little Albert, and they went ...

A record of scientific ambition at its worst and best, where progress, power and ethics collided and changed global rules forever. The post The Hard Truth Behind History’s Most Notorious Scientific ...

The astounding revelation that U.S. medical researchers intentionally gave Guatemalans gonorrhea and syphilis more than 60 years ago is so horrifying that we want to believe that what happened then ...

In certain film adaptations, a dismembered head is tacked onto the malformed body. Then, with the help of a lightning storm, ...

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, ...

Human head transplants are also known as cephalosomatic anastomosis, and at the moment, are not actually possible and likely won't be before 2030. Some researchers have tested a human head transplant ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. government drilled a hole into retired Air Force Col. Robert Lindseth’s heart more than 60 years ago because the country wanted to go to the moon and it was not sure how to get there and back ...