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

Humans can detect buried objects without touching them, sensing faint pressure ripples in sand. This seventh sense is called ...

The five established senses are sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Each of these has specialist organs that send ...

The so-called "sixth sense" has long been debated, but now scientists have proposed another sense that could be considered a ...

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 — ...

Archaeologists found a bunker used by WWII Japanese scientists to conduct human experiments, says a report. They say the site could provide new evidence about war crimes committed by the notorious ...

Scientists have uncovered a remarkable 'remote touch' sense in humans, enabling detection of hidden objects beneath surfaces. Experiments show people ...

To understand how social rules affect the interactions between humans and machines, scientists re-created a famous psychology experiment using... No Mercy For Robots: Experiment Tests How Humans ...

The human body was not designed to live in space, but genetic experiments on the International Space Station are preparing a biological toolkit for the future of long-term spaceflight. And some of the ...

Artificial intelligence opens the door to a new way of doing science, one in which we are not the only ones capable of ...