Scientists secretly wired dogs’ brains to steer their behavior, revealing just how far the agency was willing to push its Cold War ambitions.

Families of patients in a Cold War-era mind-control experiment in Montreal are pressing forward after a recent setback in their class-action lawsuit. By Vjosa Isai The C.I.A. headquarters in Langley, ...

A scientific squabble over how to define self-control draws from an unlikely source: A story from Greek mythology. Sailing home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, Odysseus longed to hear the Sirens’ ...

L. Ron Hubbard, Operation Midnight Climax, and stochastic terrorism—the race for mind control changed America forever. On an early spring day in 1959, Edward Hunter testified before a US Senate ...

On June 17th, the BBC will debut a new documentary, The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins. It's the story of Margaret Howe Lovatt, who in the 1960s took part in a NASA-funded research project, in which she ...

A hormone-free pill, called YCT-529, that temporarily stops sperm production by blocking a vitamin A metabolite has just concluded its first safety trial in humans, getting a step closer to increasing ...

Considering risks to both those inside the lab and people in the community can help minimize hazards—and make chemistry more ...

Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr had an ongoing rivalry about the true nature of quantum mechanics, and came up with a thought ...