April 13 is as ordinary a day as any other—which means that over the years it has seen its fair share of science headlines. Read on for the details. Mathematician Stanislaw Ulam had an illustrious ...

The CIA's dark era of mind control, bioweapons and secret human experiments is back in the spotlight as lawmakers move to ...

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, numerous men followed sex workers into the apartment at 225 Chestnut Street in San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill neighborhood. Instead of the cramped, charmless ...

Brainwashing is often viewed as a Cold War relic—think '60s films like "The Manchurian Candidate" and "The IPCRESS File." But Rebecca Lemov, professor of the history of science, argues in her recently ...

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 ...

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a man who followed a prostitute into the apartment at 225 Chestnut Street in San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill neighborhood received a longer, more intimate encounter ...

Imagine a common ant scouring its habitat for food when it stumbles upon a snail’s slime balls. The ant chows down the snail slime, which, unbeknownst to it, contains the larvae of Dicrocoelium ...

The idea of mind control often evokes images of dystopian science fiction and shadowy figures pulling strings behind the scenes. In reality, it is the subtle forms of influence and persuasion that ...