A new study suggests humans can sense hidden objects without touching them, by detecting faint movements in sand. This unexpected form of “remote touch” challenges traditional ideas about how the ...

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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, ...

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 ...

William Blake’s 1805 illustration for Scottish poet Robert Blair's poem "The Grave" imagines the soul rising from the body at death. It’s a little complicated to weigh a dying person on a hospital bed ...

NASA is running one of its most intense human experiments yet, sealing six volunteers inside a cramped dome for an entire year. This video explores how extreme isolation, confinement, and ...