Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein served as a chilling prophecy of the ethical dilemmas that science could pose. From ...

Researchers view Bikini Atoll on a map during a scientific seminar organized aboard the USS Chilton, part of the 1947 Bikini Resurvey Project. Credit: University of Washington: Special Collections ...

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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a derelict “terror” bunker in China that was used by Japanese scientists to conduct heinous biological experiments during World War II, including subjecting victims to ...

SpaceX is all set and ready for the historic Polaris Dawn mission to launch tomorrow, in which four private astronauts will travel into orbit and perform the first commercial spacewalk. Scheduled for ...

More than two months after the Artemis I launch, researchers are analyzing several scientific experiments that were on board. Some work is happening at the University of Colorado Boulder within the ...

The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at Baylor College of Medicine will send a series of human health research experiments aboard the upcoming Polaris Dawn mission, the first ...

Our body's "blood factory" consists of specialized tissue made up of bone cells, blood vessels, nerves and other cell types.