FORT IRWIN, Calif. — Looking like a toy helicopter, a small black drone rose up over a cluster of adobe buildings in a quiet desert village, emitting a faint buzz. The drone, an Anduril Industries’ ...

To understand how social rules affect the interactions between humans and machines, scientists re-created a famous psychology experiment using... No Mercy For Robots: Experiment Tests How Humans ...

U.S. national security officials say they have made significant changes to their experiments on human subjects since a botched research project in 1953 led to the death of an LSD-drugged CIA scientist ...

Chatbots consistently overestimate how strategic humans are, leading them to make decisions that look smart in theory but ...

Mice have been shown to experience an artificial sense of limb ownership, similar to the famous "rubber-hand illusion" in humans. "The rubber hand illusion is a staple of the study of body ...

Anyone who has dealt with ants in the kitchen knows that ants are highly social creatures; it's rare to see one alone. Humans are social creatures too, even if some of us enjoy solitude. Ants and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Bradley covers the intersection of tech and entertainment. In 1971, a groundbreaking experiment was conducted in the basement ...

Mice have remained the focal point for life sciences research for the past several decades. Their universality in biomedicine ...

The military exposed thousands of servicemen to radioactivity when it called them to participate in nuclear weapons tests, including Operation Teapot in 1955. One was Eldridge Jones, who later ...

While observing wild baboons in Kenya, researcher Akiko Matsumoto-Oda noticed something striking. Whenever the animals got injured in fights with each other, their wounds healed quickly—much more ...

People predicting the end of world generally make those predictions without scientific evidence to support them. So when an animal-behavior researcher ran experiments in the 1960s that described ...