Recent enthusiasm for field experiments, and especially for natural field experiments (NFEs), in which subjects go about their daily activities unaware that any study is taking place, has sometimes ...

A research team led by Davoud Jafari at the University of Twente, in collaboration with the University of Pisa, has completed ...

Scenarios like the one above are not uncommon for conservationists working to save corals. Almost one third of all coral ...

In early phases of drug development, new active substances are tested in animals—alongside numerous other experimental methods. Researchers face a dilemma: on the one hand, for ethical reasons, they ...

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Results of Nazi hypothermia experiments were cited in papers from the 1950s-1980s. Rich Engelbrecht/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA During World War II, Nazi doctors had unfettered access to human beings they ...