War has a funny way of turning wild ideas into serious government projects. In the chaos of World War II and the paranoia of the Cold War, military minds across the globe cooked up experiments that ...

Most people trust scientists to test new ideas on animals or in controlled labs. But some researchers decided that the best test subjects were themselves. These scientists put their own bodies at risk ...

Final results from a long-running U.S.-based experiment announced Tuesday show a tiny particle continues to act strangely — but that’s still good news for the laws of physics as we know them.