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In 1862, French neurologist Guillaume Duchenne carried out an experiment. He stimulated people's facial muscles with small amounts of electricity to test which facial muscles we use for certain facial ...

A reptile of legend recently reared its head. The basilisk is a fabled serpent king who, according to European bestiaries, can cause death with a single glance. Its most recent incarnation, however, ...

On Monday we heard about an experiment that Facebook conducted to try and manipulate peoples mood and their emotions, and the experiment was tested on over 600,000 Facebook users without their ...

It was the late 1960s and early 70s when behavioural researcher John B. Calhoun conducted an experiment called Universe 25, where he created a utopian environment for mice, some think serves as a ...

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As military urban legends go, the Philadelphia Experiment is one of the creepiest and most grotesque ever. It alleges that there was a secret U.S. Navy experiment on the USS Eldridge during World War ...