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This experiment, done on lab rats, isn’t terribly cruel. It will still probably keep you up at night when you’re thinking about hiring an exterminator. Rats are nearly universally disliked, but they ...

A series of experiments at USC involving rats, cocaine and electric shocks has been stopped following a university investigation into complaints about lab-animal welfare. The experiments involved ...

Brandon L., 30, spent a good part of the summer of 2007 in a sterile research facility. He shared a sparse dormitory room with a semiretired prison guard, a massage therapist who liked to tell S&M ...

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Cancer is terrible enough--still resisting cure 25 years after President Richard Nixon declared war on it, often intractably painful, and lamentably frequent. In 1994 the United States recorded ...

Have you heard the story about the lab rats who got hooked on cocaine, neglected everything else, and eventually starved themselves to death? This chilling story is called “cocaine rats.” They were ...

NASA is preparing to launch Artemis II, the first crewed mission around the Moon in more than five decades, with a tentative ...