I was a human experiment. It sounds a bit morbid in a B-movie sort of way, but by signing up to become part of a test panel to examine the herb ginko bilboa's effectiveness for memory enhancement, I ...

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, ...

Living human neurons were trained to play Doom, extending the long-running engineering benchmark into biological computing.

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 ...

In a world that demands constant decision-making, your ability to adapt—whether acting alone or with others—matters more than ever. But how do people actually strike that balance between doing things ...

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 ...