Researchers out of Texas explored the world of "necrobotics" and successfully repurposed dead spiders and turned them into creepy, crawly claw machines, essentially bringing them back to life. "It ...

In 1862, French neurologist Guillaume Duchenne carried out an experiment. He stimulated people's facial muscles with small amounts of electricity to test which facial muscles we use for certain facial ...

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It was the late 1960s and early 70s when behavioural researcher John B. Calhoun conducted an experiment called Universe 25, where he created a utopian environment for mice, some think serves as a ...

As military urban legends go, the Philadelphia Experiment is one of the creepiest and most grotesque ever. It alleges that there was a secret U.S. Navy experiment on the USS Eldridge during World War ...

Reddit is threatening to sue a group of researchers who used artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to secretly experiment on its users. Scientists from the University of Zurich set loose an army of AI ...