Over 500 years ago, Europeans began coming to the New World in growing numbers largely because of its rich resources. The Americas, of course, had already been populated by Native Americans for ...

A new tool shows it is possible to turn down the partisan rancor in an X feed—without removing political posts and without ...

By being able to wait for better food, cuttlefish — the squishy sea creatures similar to octopuses and squids — showed self-control that's linked to the higher intelligence of primates. It was part of ...

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, ...

Raytheon Technologies and Northrop Grumman recently demonstrated that a single user could control a swarm of over 100 unmanned systems in an urban environment. (Sgt. 1st Class Brent C. Powell/Army) ...

The CIA created remote-controlled dogs by operating on their brains during a bizarre mind-control experiment, according to freshly declassified documents. During the top-secret 1963 project, ...

For example, the researchers explore the effects of mental self control in an experiment that asked a group of participants to write down all their thoughts for six minutes. Another group was told ...

The control room is being designed to optimize operator performance during long shifts monitoring a rover on the moon. Researchers are studying factors like room layout, lighting, and break areas to ...

What do you get when you combine Netflix’s “Black Mirror” and social psychologist Stanley Milgram’s controversial electric-shock experiments on free will versus obedience? No one can say for sure, but ...