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 ...

AI has passed a new benchmark, scoring better than the average human on a recognized creativity test involving 100,000 people ...

Mice have been shown to experience an artificial sense of limb ownership, similar to the famous "rubber-hand illusion" in humans. "The rubber hand illusion is a staple of the study of body ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Human experimentation made many modern medical advances possible—but history shows what happens when ethics are ignored. Across wars, regimes, and institutions, people were subjected to cruel and ...

Some human research will no longer be classified as a clinical trial, easing the paperwork burden, but not everyone agrees with the approach.