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 ...

STANFORD, Calif. (KGO) -- There's a new twist on wildfire preparedness here in the Bay Area. It's an experiment at Stanford University, not just to cut the risk this year but potentially cut it in ...

YOU’RE PROBABLY TEMPTED TO TAKE YOUR PETS WITH YOU. BUT WITH RISING TEMPERATURES, IT’S ALWAYS CRUCIAL TO THINK TWICE BEFORE LEAVING THEM IN THE VEHICLE. THE NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY DEMONSTRATED THAT ...

Unwitting men became test subjects in a covert operation that fused seduction with psychedelics—under the watchful eye of America’s most secretive agency.

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, ...

When the nuclei of atoms are about to collide in an experiment, their centers never perfectly align along the direction of relative motion. This leads to collisions with complex three-dimensional ...

Air conditioning wasn't common in middle class homes until some Texas families decided to become study subjects in the 1950s. More than a half century ago, about 20 families in Texas took part in an ...