Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments revealed how ordinary people could follow authority to disturbing extremes, with many ...

In 1961, Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram recruited ordinary men for what he called a study on memory and learning. When they arrived, a researcher in a gray lab coat directed each volunteer to ...

Some of these killed people. Some broke people's minds. And some poisoned entire cities. From the Demon Core to Chernobyl's liquidators, these are 25 real science experiments and projects that went ...

This trait has expanded our maps, unlocked new science, made the world less unjust. So why don’t we have more of it? It comes ...

The BBC once revisited the Stanford Prison Experiment through a controlled 2002 prison simulation to test how authority forms ...

While obedience can be learned, control over one's own life is gradually lost. And we often don't realize it. Control over ...

A clone is meant to be a genetically identical copy, but an extraordinary 20-year study has shown that this isn’t, in fact, the case. It reveals that clones have lots of extra mutations and, if you ...