The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has not yet rescinded directives that led to the cancellation of more than 2,400 ...

While laughter is often considered uniquely human, tied to language and sense of humor, all great apes produce remarkably ...

In a functioning system, the kind of placebo-controlled vaccine trials that Secretary Kennedy is calling for would never get past an IRB, much less progress to an IND application. Vaccines are being ...

Research featuring Carr Center's Erica Chenoweth. Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to ...

The kidney, a critical organ for waste filtration and fluid regulation, is the subject of a groundbreaking molecular mapping project that could reshape our understanding of renal health.

From depressed polar bears to charismatic pandas, conservationists have used anthropomorphism, or the practice of attributing ...

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

Kajal Schiller designed a computer simulation game to measure whether socioeconomic status might determine how likely people ...

Research qualifying for Expedited Review includes activities that involve "no more than minimal risk" to human participants, but also involves one or more of the procedures listed in Section IV. B. 2.

Harvard cognitive psychologist Daniel Schacter’s work has underpinned a sea change in how we think about memory; namely, that ...

The limestone cave of Liang Bua, on the Indonesian island of Flores, is widely known as the hobbit cave, the site where the surprisingly tiny and enormously controversial extinct human relative ...

Covered individuals with direct responsibility for human subjects research are required to complete a disclosure statement annually, and within 30 days of discovering or acquiring a new significant ...